As I climbed and "swung" my way up the steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa I could not stop thinking to myself, here I am following in the footsteps of Galileo. While it is probably unlikely that Galileo used the tower to carry out his experiments on the effect of the weight of an object and its speed of descent, it seems likely to me, given he grew up in Pisa, that be would have climbed the tower at some time in his life - even if it was just to take in the view. On the other hand, even if Galileo never entered the tower, climbing it with thoughts of what he achieved gave me a real feeling of being part of the world where modern science began.
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