[AntonioLao]

A particular Aristotelian argument which wasn’t based on experimentations stated that a 10-pound solid metal ball falls faster than a 5-pounder. This was never disputed for close to 2000 years until the time of Galileo Galilei. The turning point was the supposedly and popularly talked about fanfare at the leaning tower of Pisa which more than likely never took place. Nevertheless, Galileo performed and recorded over 100 inclined plane experiments showed clearly without the shadow of a doubt that the above-mentioned Aristotelian argument is false. His concrete visual demos were the beginning of empirical science in general and experimental physics in particular. His documented information disguised as a discourse similar to a play and written in different languages and dialects but were based on factual observations were never accepted by the religious authorities believing in Aristotelian science and geocentric universe. Dogmatism suppressed and changed Galileo’s personal fate but it could not stopped the accelerated progress of empirical science. The final nails that sealed Galileo’s coffin for good were his telescopic detections of the motion of 4 Jovian satellites, the phases of Venus toppling the equally held Ptolemaic system of epicycles and the Earth as the center of the universe. These once again proved that the Copernican system of heliocentricity fell into acceptance faster than it would have been without the supports of astronomical facts. As the saying goes: ‘cold hard fact sinks, hot air rises’.