Archimedes’ story of him and the bathtub was well known during Galileo’s time and influenced many of his methods. Galileo was a great admirer of Archimedes’ and had adapted to many of his methods, including when he timed the oscillations (regular variation in magnitude or position around a central point) of …show more content…
In his unpublished series of essays titled De Motu (“On Motion”) Galileo had set out to write his theory on motion, which contained a known error at the time. In 1602, Galileo revisited his theory on motion. Over the course of 2 years he formulated the correct law of falling bodies. He came down to this discovery through his study of inclined planes and the pendulum, in which he worked out that a projectile follows a parabolic path. His conclusions to this are credited with conclusions foreshadowing Newton’s laws of motions. Some of Galileo’s greatest discoveries included the hydrostatic balance and the