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In what way did Galileo prove Aristotle

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Answer:Aristotle held that there are two kinds of motion for inanimate matter, natural and unnatural. ... For the natural motion of heavy objects falling to earth, Aristotle asserted that the speed of fall was proportional to the weight, and inversely proportional to the density of the medium the body was falling through.

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According to the story, Galileo discovered through this experiment that the objects fell with the same acceleration, proving his prediction true, while at the same time disproving Aristotle's theory of gravity (which states that objects fall at speed proportional to their mass).


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