"The pre-Galilean thinkers were... concerned with motion in the sense used by Aristotle. For them, "motion" was any process in which there was transmission from any state or condition to another state. Thus the process of aging, the change in a person's degree of wisdom, or the growth in the weight of a boy could all be considered examples of motion. By contrast Galileo was concerned with physical motion, motion involving a change of place... One of the major kinds of motion that Galileo studied was the motion of free fall."
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I. Bernard Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (2005)
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Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
italienischer Naturforscher und Astronom
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