Aristotle versus Galileo
•Objects of different masses fall at different rates.
•Moving objects will eventually come to a full stop if no force acts on it.
•Objects of different masses fall at the same rate.
•Moving objects will not stop unless a force acts on it.
Aristotelian philosophers of Galileo's day railed at such a mathematical
approach to physics, on the grounds that mathematicians pondered
immaterial concepts, while Nature consisted entirely of matter.