Tipping The Balance
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War with Genoa--and Pisa's defeat in 1284--suspends building for nearly a century.
About 1198, documents show, a bell ringer worked at the tower, which was about this high at the time.
BELFRY 1360-1370
Galileo is said to have performed his famous falling-object experiment from this level, though no proof exists.
Sources: Coordination Committee for the Safeguard of the Tower of Pisa; University of Pisa; CS Informatica, Pisa: Eyewitness Guide to Italy; Associated Press
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