Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 382
accordance with them was regardedas untrue. Aristotle had declared that if two weights—the one being ten times as heavy as the other—weredropped together from a height, the heavier weightwould reach the ground ten times as quickly as thelighter. Everybody believed this, and nobody had everthought… … j%uj Jiuller., Prominent Astronomers of the Nineteenth Century. 377 378 STORY OF run SUN, MOON, AND STARS. But Galileo was not so easily satisfied. He lookedinto the matter independently, bent upon finding out,not what Aristotle had thought or what the Churchmight support, but simply what actually…
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