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oct 15, 1590 - Galileo obtains the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa and demonstrates his velocity experiment.

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His velocity experiment was demonstrated by dropping objects off of the leaning tower in order to prove Aristotle's theory that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects wrong.

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oct 15, 1590
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~ 435 years ago