On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:30 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> * > The funny thing is Galileo disproved it by the same kind of armchair > analysis in which Aristotle and Plato indulged; while Aristotle relied on > observation (bricks really to fall faster than feathers).* > In his armchair Galileo did find a flaw in Aristotle's logic and proved he must be wrong, but more importantly he found out what was right by performing experiments with a inclined plane (experiments Aristotle could have done but didn't). Galileo discovered the Law Of Odd Numbers and that the distance a object falls is proportional to the square of the time it has been falling; there is no way he or anybody else could have deduced that from his armchair with nothing but logic. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2tHigovu%3D7%3DS5En1i0iZy73qKC2EUwu2RL7KmZhX%3DzWw%40mail.gmail.com.
