g is famous for his study of how things fall. he was the first person to do experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a light ball and he dropped them both form a high place. They fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important.This is the law of falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.
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