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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.”

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never heard anything about the additional senses. What are they?

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• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a person that learn stuff through memes: funny but not really. The concept of Inertia was in discussion for a long long time before Newton: wikiless.org/wiki/Inertia?lang=en

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Correct.

    The big Newtonian conceptual shift was the removal of the idea of “natural motions” (fire wants to go up, earth wants to go down, the stars want to go in circles), which permitted a unified explanation of terrestrial and celestial motion.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s not moving and it is meant to move: WD-40.

  If it’s moving and it is not meant to move: Duct Tape.

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• deforestgump@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  more like Fake Newston

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