Galileo Galile

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Galileo Galile

    I chose to write my essay on number one "What was Galileo's

approach to science and why was it considered to be revolutionary?".

I chose this topic because from what I know about Galileo his approach was

new to everyone. This topic seemed to be the most important from all of the

others.

    Aristotle was a Philosopher and he thought about things a lot. He did

not experiment, because he thought it was not necessary. Aristotle said that

objects of greater masses fall at greater speeds, and everyone just expected

this as truth. Aristotle never tried to drop two thing of different weights to

see which one landed first. He just used common sense and came to his

conclusion. It was expected as truth all over the world that things of greater

weight fall faster than things of lesser weights. Galileo challenged this

accepted truth, and he experimented. He found out that objects drop at the

same speed no matter what their weight is. Galileo was the one of the firsts

to experiment. He had to see proof of something to believe in it.

    Aristotle believed that the earth was the center of t

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