Understanding inverse square law of gravitation – Newton’s way.
See it the way Sir Isaac Newton saw it.
When Aristotle meets Isaac Newton: A Clash of Views
Aristotle was a philosopher, scientist, and teacher of the classical Ancient Greece period. He was by all accounts influential; he taught many great things in plenty of fields. For a long time, his philosophies were accepted as they were and other scholars merely only added to them or modified them a little. His philosophies about physics were however incorrect, and it took the audacious minds of Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Galileo, and ultimately Sir Isaac Newton to overthrow the long-established Aristotelian dogma.
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