In this paper we propose the use of computer simulations of historical experiments in physics education as a strategy to recover and articulate the historical and empirical dimensions of scientific knowledge in the classroom. Particularly, we present a Didactic Interactive Simulation (DIS) using the software Modellus to rescue the experiment of the inclined plane described by Galileo Galilei in his work Discourse and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638), in which he investigates the law of falling bodies.
computer simulations; historical experiments; inclined plane; Modellus
