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Re:Leonardo da Vinci Experiments Explored Gravity as a Form ... by red_trumpet on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:40AM (#34836900)
Well, thinking of gravity as a force is Newtonian mechanics, which was also not available to da Vinci.
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Re:Leonardo da Vinci Experiments Explored Gravity as a Form ... by globuous on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:09PM (#34838918)
Which was in itself the genius of this newton guy. It’s one thing to realise that objects falling accelerate. It’s another to realise that F=ma, and that this can model objects falling as well as a bunch of other things. Surely da Vinci wasn’t lucky enough to have an apple fall on his head ? :)
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