Thread 213508360

niggas born before Newton really saw all sorts of things falling and thought nothing of it

It’s wild how aristotle just kind of said ”Heavy things fall faster than light things” and no one thought of checking if it’s true until the 1600s

>>213508415
fr fr no cap

>>213508360 (OP)
afaik he was notable for the inverse square law

the theory of non newtonian gravity has been around the west for millenia

>>213508360 (OP)
Scholastics had a different worldview. For them the world was made up by essences that suffered essential, qualitative and quantitative changes. An apple falling down was for them a natural movement caused by a connatural accident of the substance of the apple, this is, being mostly from the earth element which has gravity and thus moves down.

>>213508360 (OP)
You were born after and you still think nothing of it

>>213508508
the inverse square law is directly derived from Kepler's laws
so basically Newton did nothing

>>213508360 (OP)
they thoughted about it though

>>213509783
he invented calc doe...

>>213509836
NO HE DIDN'T