what reason did they give for the fact things fall, etc
2007-05-04 03:45:24 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
grr i'm a numpty i was really intrested in what theories scienties put forward before newton to describe the effects of gravity but instead i've turned myself into a laughing stock. bugger
2007-05-04 03:59:33 · update #1
i'll proberly get a violation for saying bugger now
bother
2007-05-04 04:08:13 · update #2
I would just like to point out that the original meaning of "invent" is: To come upon, find; to find out, discover and that you can still use it with the meaning: To find out or produce by mental activity. I am quoting here from the Oxford ENGLISH Dictionary.
So there!
And because I'm really smart, I will give you a link to an article on the Aristotelian theory of gravity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian_theory_of_gravity
2007-05-04 03:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Annabella-VInylist 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You're thinking of Sir Isaac Newton. Isaac Hayes did the opening musical score for the movie "Shaft". By the way, he didnt invent gravity, he discovered that it exists. In, science, no scientist invents anything, they merely try to understand how nature works so that engineers can come up with practical applications based on that science. No, most likely an apple never fell on his head, but thinking of that same apple falling, he invented Physics and Calculus simultaneously. The apple falls at an infinitesimally changing rate from one minute to the next, but it is always falling further as the more time elapses, and this is the nature of calculus.
2016-05-20 04:01:03 · answer #2 · answered by ayesha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Newton never invented gravity he only discovered some of it's manifestations. gravity has been around since the day the Universe came into being..
2007-05-04 03:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Newton did not invent gravity, he came up with a theory to explain how gravity works and how it can be expressed in mathematical terms. Prior to this there were other theories of gravity, mostly along the lines of 'attraction' between other bodies.
2007-05-04 03:50:43 · answer #4 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They would've just been ignorant of that fact and possibly just assumed that it was the way it was meant to be. Just think about it logically - as a child, before you knew about gravity did you ever think about how amazing it was that you didn't float away into space or that things dropped downwards despite the fact we're on an object spinning in space? No, because it's just the way things are and you then (just as people before Newton) wouldn't have thought anymore about it.
2007-05-04 03:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not invented and it has always been there. What Newton did was see the effect that it had on matter. Before Newton nobody really gave the happening a thought.
2007-05-04 03:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by ANF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newton did NOT invent gravity!! He discovered it as a law of physics. Until then, they were unable to explain just why things that went up came down.
Chow!!
2007-05-04 03:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
before gravity was invented we used to be able to float around and nobody ever got a broken arm from hitting the pavement hard, because we just bounced off of everything.....
Isaac Newton didn't invent gravity, he discovered it. And it was one of those things that nobody really bothered to question, to them it was how god made it.
2007-05-04 03:53:54 · answer #8 · answered by Frank K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Newton discovered that he didn't invent gravity when an apple fell down on his head. OK?
2007-05-04 04:21:56 · answer #9 · answered by hyperoil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything was floating about and it was very diffucult to butter bread---thank goodness Sir Isaac came along when he did and invented gravity or we,d all be spaced out by now
2007-05-04 03:54:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋