Comment on fig newton
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Newton’s contributions were defining those principles through mathematics to prove them and quantify them. He didn’t just say “gravity is a thing that exists” and have accolades poured up on him. He also invented calculus to prove his theories, since the math required to solve those problems didn’t exist yet. He actually invented it twice, since he threw all of his notes into the fireplace in a fit of frustration while trying to teach calculus to his assistant.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But also, before the whole “an object at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an outside force” was different from Aristotle’s view, which said that objects fall because each of the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) had their natural place, and these elements had “a tendency to move back toward their natural place.”
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve never heard anything about the additional senses. What are they?
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My point exactly.
I really can’t name many, but for instance nociception is the sense of pain and proprioception is the sense of where your body is in space.
A blind and deaf man can direct his hands so that his index fingers meet. And feeling isn’t the same as pain.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Human_sensation
So there a bit of debate about how many senses we have, but it’s definitely more than six.
gmtom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve heard the 5 senses justified in that they are the 5 “external” senses and the rest are about internal sensing like your sense of hunger. It’s still a bit of a reach but much better than the pure classical view.