According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...

This is exactly what Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before: all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass. The result was predicted by well-established theory ...

that all objects fall at the same rate. It's the kind of story that's easy to imagine, easy to remember, but whether he ever performed the experiment at the tower is debatable. Still, Galileo did ...

Science presenter Jon Chase describes Aristotle’s and Galileo’s theories about falling bodies ... but different mass, dropped from a window will land at the same time. However, a hammer ...