Curiosity is a powerful thing :)
You may be right about Galileo's observations being myth, Lpfr. Whether he did or didn't Galileo certainly isn't credited for discovering the Coriolis effect.
Can anyone post the equations used to determine the horizontal movement? To many people it would...
Galileo observed that objects dropped from height hit ground to the east of a plumb bob. I guess this is due to the Coriolis force. How would this distance be calculated for something like a baseball off the Empire State Building or a skydiver?