alleryThe correct answer to the puzzle of motion came from:
ASocrates
BGalileo
CAristotle
DPtolemy
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Galileo
1. The question waited a very long time for a proper answer.
2. It was settled in the seventeenth century.
3. Galileo gave the correct answer.
_Source: syllabus Physics Part I, Chapter 5, Laws of Motion._
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