• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    Well, he didn’t see anyone else writing it down! Let it be a lesson, the importance of documentation

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      29 days ago

      It was actually quite an interesting discovery that Newton’s first law, the way it’s usually repeated, was written in Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan”, which was published when Newton was around 8 years old.