... or narrow. He rushed back to his room and began a series of experiments where he determined that neither the size of the arc or the weight of the hanging object affected the time of the swing. Only the length of the chain could alter the time of the swing. This experimentation resulted in Galileo's Law of the Pendulum. Galileo became a professor of mathematics at Pisa where he challenged Aristotle ... approximately the same time. However, the onlookers refused to believe what they had seen with their own eyes, saying Galileo had tricked them using magic and illusion. Galileo introduced ...

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