On 2013-05-13, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm not trying to beat the original Poster up for making an > error, but demonstrating just how badly off track you can get > by trying to reason from first principles (as Plato may have > done) instead of empirical study (as Aristotle or Bacon may > have done). Knowledge of how things actually are beats > understanding of how they ought to be every time.
Wasn't it Aristarchus who was considered a trouble-maker for dropping different sized lead balls from a tower? They would land simultaneously just as his teacher, who taught that heavier objects fall faster, was walking past. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list