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The rise of the Copernican view of the world led to the resurgence of the Platonic idea that like objects attract but in the context of heavenly bodies.

In the 17th century, Galileo made significant advances in the concept of weight.

He proposed a way to measure the difference between the weight of a moving object and an object at rest.

Ultimately, he concluded weight was proportionate to the amount of matter of an object, and not the speed of motion as supposed by the Aristotelean view of physics.