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jan 1, 1638 - Galilean Gravitational Freefall Demonstration

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Galileo (likely in Italy) demonstrates that two objects of different weights will fall with constant acceleration to each other in a vacuum, giving a step up to the rise in Newtonian Mechanics.

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jan 1, 1638
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~ 388 years ago