ed to study the science of motion. Again, because velocity was difficult to assign from the outset of the experiment, Galileo employed the mathematical-experimental method to test time and distance over and over again in order to best determine the velocity of falling bodies (Cohen, 1985, p. 85).
GalileoÆs repeated experiments in which he dropped items of varying sizes and weights from a tower allowed him to formulate and test his theories on velocity. The mathematical-experimental method, (in which repeated, scientific testing was utilized), and the hypothetico-deductive method (in which unknown variables were figured through the testing of known variables) were the backbone of GalileoÆs remarkable findings.
When he held a professorship in astronomy at the University of Pisa, Galileo was forced to teach the Aristotlian theory at the time tha
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