11-July-2009, 08:13 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: San Antonio, Tx.
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Originally Posted by ToeQuestor
It also didn't help that Galileo wrote in the Tuscan, a language with words somehow more amenable to sarcasm, but strangely, also, for poetry. I read about it but I haven't looked into it. I guess they translated it too literally to Italian.
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I knew it was a little unorthodox for him to not write in Latin, but I didn't consider that Tuscany would be a different style compared to the others at that time. Regardless, it was probably a smart move on his part as it reached the public with great excitement. Even the Chinese back then wrote favorably of his book.
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That 'someone' was one of my ancestors...
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Wow. [I've forgotten his name and where I read it.]
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and looked very much like me:
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How'd you manage to get all that stuff up there? 
At an early, it is said that Galileo noticed that different sizes of hail all hit the ground at the same time. Thus, he discovered that Aristotle, who claimed the heavier the faster, was wrong. The Tower of Pisa and other similar experiments, or demonstrations, were futher convincg evidence that the Aristotelians had a problem.
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