Several hundred years ago, in the small town of Pisa in Italy, there lived an
unusual man. His name was Galileo. Galileo was a professor of mathematics. He
always dressed in strange clothes and used to walk around the town talking to
himself. The people of Pisa were quite sure whether Galileo was totally crazy or an
amazing genius. He certainly had some very peculiar ideas.
One day Galileo gathered together some people from the town and asked
them,' What do you think will happen if I take one heavy ball and one much
lighter ball and drop them at the same time from the top of the Learning Tower of
Pisa? Which ball do you think will hit the ground first? Everyone thought this was
a very odd question. The answer was obvious. Every sensible person knew that the
heavy ball would land first. When Galileo said that they would arrive at the same
time, the people were sure that he was out of his mind. He dropped the two balls
and they came down exactly together.
Next Galileo made powerful telescope and started to study the sky. It was then that
he came up with the crazier idea of all. He told to people that the earth was
moving very fast and that it was going round the sun. Now they were sure he was
insane. No sensible, rational person could believe such wield and absurd thing. If
the earth were moving, people would not be able to stand up. And how could the
earth be going around the sun? The sun was in the east every morning and in the
west every evening. Every reasonable man knew that the sun must therefore be
going round the earth. This time everyone knew he could not possibly be sane.
Galileo was put in prison for along time because of his dangerous ideas, and he was
only set free when he was ready to say that he made a mistake
Several hundred years ago, in the small town of Pisa in Italy, there lived an unusual man. His name was Galileo. Galileo was a professor of mathematics. He always dressed in strange clothes and used to walk around the town talking to himself. The people of Pisa were quite sure whether Galileo was totally crazy or an amazing genius. He certainly had some very peculiar ideas. One day Galileo gathered together some people from the town and asked them,' What do you think will happen if I take one heavy ball and one much lighter ball and drop them at the same time from the top of the Learning Tower of Pisa? Which ball do you think will hit the ground first? Everyone thought this was a very odd question. The answer was obvious. Every sensible person knew that the heavy ball would land first. When Galileo said that they would arrive at the same time, the people were sure that he was out of his mind. He dropped the two balls and they came down exactly together. Next Galileo made powerful telescope and started to study the sky. It was then that he came up with the crazier idea of all. He told to people that the earth was moving very fast and that it was going round the sun. Now they were sure he was insane. No sensible, rational person could believe such wield and absurd thing. If the earth were moving, people would not be able to stand up. And how could the earth be going around the sun? The sun was in the east every morning and in the west every evening. Every reasonable man knew that the sun must therefore be
going round the earth. This time everyone knew he could not possibly be sane.
Galileo was put in prison for along time because of his dangerous ideas, and he was
only set free when he was ready to say that he made a mistake
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