Review of Galileo's Law

Abstract

Galileo's scientific revolution was that he extracted, abstracted, and grasped only the important aspects of the subject phenomenon. And he introduced an analytic method to science that typifies modern thinking that focuses on the 'how', the quantitative relationship between variables, away from the focus on 'why' in ancient Greek thinking. Our research aims to investigate Galileo's method for establishing a concept through thought experiments. The following research questions are presented for this study's purpose, focusing on inertia, which is considered to be his most significant discovery. The following research questions were developed with an emphasis on inertia, the area in which he made his most illustrious discovery. It is now possible to calculate the laws of motion of things using functions of time. In this respect, mathematical time was a decisive variable in making mathematisation of physical nature practical. The space for absolute time, which is a mathematical time, can be geometrically defined because, according to atomic theory, vacuum exists between an atom and an object composed of atoms or between objects, ignoring factors that interfere with motion, such as friction. Thought experiments, which were easier to perform at the time than laboratory experiments, were used to justify this mathematical abstraction strategy.