Acceleration Due to Gravity/Historical Note

Historical Note on Acceleration Due to Gravity
This result famously contradicts, who taught that heavier objects fall faster than light ones.

There exists a well-known story about how proved this law by dropping two objects of different weights from a height (supposedly the ).

Apparently this never actually happened.

However, did perform a similar experiment some time before  started experimenting.

The fact that in the general case air resistance can not be ignored goes some way to explaining how the truth was not arrived at earlier.

Even children notice how leaves, for example, flutter gently down from on high, whereas stones tend to plummet.