Is it true that Robert Boyle’s experiments disproved Galileo’s theory that all the bodies fall with the same speed towards the Earth?

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The above statement is false.
Galileo's law of free falling states that in the absence of air, all bodies fall with the same acceleration, irrespective of their mass.
To test Galileo's arguments, the British scientist Robert Boyle did some experiments. He kept a coin and a feather in a glass jar and created a vacuum inside the jar using a vacuum pump. He then allowed both the coin and feather to fall into the vacuum. In his experiments, he observed that both the coin and the feather fell on the ground simultaneously, proving that Galileo was right.
So the correct statement would be that Robert Boyle's experiment proved Galileo's theory that all the bodies fall with the same speed towards the Earth.

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