A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

By that logic, in this experiment the 10 lb cannonball would have fallen ten times faster than the 1 lb cannonball. Even Galileo's contemporaries could see that this wasn't the case. Still ...

And yet scientists have often engaged in thought experiments, some of which have marked major advances in our understanding of the world. Just consider the famous example of Galileo’s thought ...

Galileo's thermometer is a sealed liquid-filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats (in this case, labelled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C). The ...

Bye-ee! This vlog style film recreates a famous experiment in which Galileo, an Italian scientist, dropped two objects from the Leaning tower of Pisa in 1589. He explains that he did the ...

Tradition has it that Galileo performed an experiment in which he dropped objects of differing weights from the tower ... The decoration recalling Galileo's life is inspired by the site's natural rock ...