he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment."
I can watch this over and over and remain thoroughly transfixed by the translation of the horse's forward movement to the hand to the ball. (see Galileo's Battle for the Heavens)
Galileo was so confident that . . .
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he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment."
I'm not sure about what exactly in his life he didn't act out "through experiment". He was quite a scientist and went to a University to study medicine, so at some point I imagine that he may have done some experimenting with some of his theories.
Here's information about his scientific methods.