Science's 10 most Beautiful Experiments :

#2 Galileo (2006)

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One of the first experimentalists was Galileo, who supposedly dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to demonstrate that the two would hit the ground at the same time. Approx. 400 years later that trick still works.
(courtesy: NASA 1971)

- MILLENIUM FILM WORKSHOP: INVISIBLE CINEMA, NYC
- DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL, BKLYN NY
- OTHER CINEMA, ATA, SF CA
- UNIV OF NM ALBERQUERQUE, EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA
-AURORA PICTURE SHOW, HOUSTON TX