Newton defines Gravity
Take the nearest object around you and drop it. Did you do it? Good. Now where did it go? Down, naturally. Now take the nearest object and toss it. Okay, now where did it go? In the direction you tossed and then down, right? Most of us take that exercise for granted
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but not Isaac Newton- he experimented with that everyday phenomena and as called it gravity.
Ever wonder where The Falling Apple gets its unique name? Well, hang on to your hat because this is the story: It is told that one day Isaac Newton, a superb mathematician, was sitting underneath an apple tree when he experienced an apple falling from a high up limb. Now on some accounts the apple hit him in the noggin and in other |
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stories he just witnessed the falling apple, but regardless the result was the same: Newton studied the properties of his new found force, gravity-the force that pulls objects to earth.
From there, Newton went on to discover and compound upon a great many of other |
scientific discoveries. Perhaps the most important works of his were published in Principia (which has yet to have been accurately analyzed). These works were deemed Newton's Laws of Physics and are a little it hard to understand.
The important thing is that we know what gravity is now: the force that pulls all objects down to earth and miraculously keeps the Moon tethered to Earth and the Earth to the Sun (as explained by Copernicus). |