Aristotle's Ideas About Falling Objects Aristotle said that there are 4 elements: Earth, Wind, Water, Fire. Objects made of earth (like a rock) will want to go the center of the universe (center ...

Aristotle Was Wrong—Very Wrong—But People Still Love Him. ... If a falling object doesn't move at a constant speed, it says that the gravitational force must make the object CHANGE its speed.

Unlike the fly debacle, the falling objects are understandable. Aristotle believed that things fell at a constant speed, not accelerating, and that lighter objects fell more slowly than heavier ones.

Some 1,800 years later, in late 16th-century Italy, the young scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei questioned Aristotle's theories of falling objects. He even performed several experiments ...

According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...