One of the very few people in history known almost exclusively by his first name.

Galileo (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) worked out (correctly) that the distance an object travels when falling is proportional to the square of the time. He performed a series of elegant experiments with balls rolling down a slope, and timing how long it takes.

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