The motion of objects fascinated Galileo throughout his life. When he wasn't conducting real-world experiments ... far more slowly than a falling soccer ball. However, Galileo suspected that ...

But, perhaps Galileo’s main claim to ... Two New Sciences (1638), he described an experiment in which a 100-pound cannonball and a one-pound musket ball are dropped simultaneously and both ...

It's a legendary experiment: Young Galileo, perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa, drops cannonballs of different weights to see if all objects fall at the same rate. It's a story that's easy to ...

It's a thought experiment first postulated by the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei ... Cox dropped a bowling ball and a feather. BBC presenter Brian Cox drops a bowling ball and a feather ...