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World Service,08 Mar 2000,13 mins

Galileo's Acceleration Experiment

Experiments that Changed the World

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Galileo famously disproved Aristotle's theory on motion. His acceleration experiment proved that it was the air that affected the rate of a falling object. He is likely to have influenced Newton.

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