Hi Turtle, I had also missed this post.
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Originally Posted by Turtle
Yes, your understanding is wrong.  In fact, Galileo devised an inclined plane down which he rolled his bronze balls to conduct the necessary experiments. Seems he lacked a sufficiently accurate timepiece if he simply dropped his balls.  |
I was aware of his inclined plane work but I was talking about an issue one of my ancient professors told me: i.e., that Galileo was the originator of that thought experiment. That is a slightly different issue (which may or may not be true; I have personally found no conformation of it).
Have fun -- Dick
