Dear Joe and All, on 2002-12-17 06.45, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip> > Galileo upset Aristotle by dropping weights > from the leaning tower. <snip> I think it was Simon Stevin (1548/1620) who performed the experiment that refuted Aristotle's views on gravity and falling bodies. Simon Stevin reported this before 1584. As I understand it, Galilei Galileo did his gravitation experiments 'independently and some time later'. This was the same Simon Stevin who wrote simple descriptions of decimal numbers and decimal calculations in 'De Thiende' (literally 'Of Tenths') in 1585. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia
