Using history to foster critical scientific thinking: Aristotle and Galileo's debate resolved through high-speed motion tracking in the classroom

In his Discorsi, Galileo aimed to correct centuries of Aristotelian “unreason” concerning the physics of falling objects by introducing a thought experiment that pointed out contradictions when combinations of one light and one heavy body are dropped. Inspired by Galileo's story, we sought to f...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of physics 2018-12, Vol.86 (12), p.903-908
Hauptverfasser:	Stadlbauer, Josef M., Kehrer, Lukas, Bauer, Siegfried
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Critical thinking Experiments Learning Physics Science history
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