Galileo's ship

Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th- and 17th-century physicist and astronomer. The experiments were created to argue for the idea of a rotating Earth, as opposed to a stationary Earth around which the Sun, planets, and stars rotate.

An argument that was used at the time was that, if the Earth were rotating, there would be detectable effects on the trajectories of projectiles or falling bodies.