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A VOYAGE IN SPACE
had all pinned their faith on Aristotle, he dropped the two weights together; and they struck the ground together, showing that Aristotle's statement was quite wrong. Even then—such is the reluctance to abandon an old idea—people would not believe
Galileo dropping the two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
the thing they saw with their eyes. Such was their profound respect for Aristotle that they declared that there must be some mistake in the experiment, since Aristotle could not be wrong.
In honour of Galileo's memory, I want us to try this experiment to-day, as well as we can. We have
