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- From: panek@an.hp.com (Jon Panek)
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- Subject: Re: Gravity
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 22:45:23 GMT
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- Wayne McDougall writes:
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- >> This does bring to mind the story that Galileo did not actually
- >> drop stuff off the leaning tower of Pisa, but simply claimed the
- >> results that different sized stuff would fall at the same rate,
- >> without bothering to find out.
- >
- >Yes, like Newton' apple, this story is generally regarded as apocryphal but
- >Galileo DID "bother to find out" by rolling things down inclined planes,
- >which has the effect of slowing things down so that they can be readily
- >measured, whil proportions etc, remain constant.
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- Yes, it seems the last time I tried to roll a feather down an inclined
- plane, it *did* go much slower. About that proportionality now...
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