[dr_lew]

Galileo was famously wrong on many particulars. My personal favorite is his botched attempt to derive the law of centripetal force, which Newton summarily dispatched in Lemma XI of Book I:

The evanescent subtense to the angle of contact, in all curves which at the point of contact have a finite curvature, is ultimately as the square of the subtense of the conterminous arc.

Ho ho! How did he miss that one?

[Buck W.]

Cracks me up every time! Thanks for the belly laugh!