Talk:History of science
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It would be nice to know who first wrote about the acceleration of falling bodies. I know Isaac Newton's f=ma formula from high school physics; but was he the first to assert that a falling body gains more speed steadily, as time goes by? --Ed Poor
- No. It predates recorded history. RSchlafly 20:59, 20 November 2011 (EST)
- How would one know that certain knowledge predates record history?--Andy Schlafly 21:02, 20 November 2011 (EST)
What I'm trying to track down is the claim that Aristotle and all those ancient Greek philosophers were so "theory-minded" that they never noticed falling objects gradually picking up speed. Any primitive boy watching a waterfall could see that the water falls faster and faster, the longer it falls. How could Galileo have been the first one to observe this?