Giambattista Benedetti, born in Venice on 14 August 1530 and dead on 20 January 1590, was an Italian mathematician who also worked on physics, mechanics, sundials and the science of music. In Resolutio omnium Euclidis problematum of 1553 and Demonstratio proportionum motuum localium of 1554 he proposed a new doctrine of the speed of falling bodies, arguing against Aristotle that speed depends on the difference between the specific gravity of the body and that of the medium, so that two objects of the same material but different weights fall at the same speed. A second edition of the Demonstratio added the effect of the resistance of the medium, and he repeated the theory in his Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber of 1585.
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