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How did Isaac Newton really discover gravity - apple or comet? BBC science

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Discover here how the science of a comet and its appearance in 1680 and 1681 was what really made Isaac Newton discover gravity. Interesting video clip from BBC.

Watch more Comet's Tale clips with BBC Worldwide here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E69828D29AD416B

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  • Either way Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist and intellectual of all time, comet or apple, though I personally prefer the Apple.

  • Ah it doesnt matter he figured it out.

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  • F=Gm1m2/d2

  • i think i was the comet because a falling apple would be too common for him notice gravity

  • эхх Ната... Учи английский!..((((

  • This is a really awesome playlist

  • @ZelatoUK That's absolute fact but he did not ''Discover'' he found the Area America so the big question is. Why does people say he ''Discovered''

  • Issac Newton did not "discover" gravity, it was already there, the same way Christopher fucking Columbus did not "discover" America.

  • It was neither comet or apple, it was pc world.

  • I find this hard to masturbate to.

  • He discovered it through geometry. Optics was based in geometry, Planetary motion was geometry (described by kepler) and alchemy was based on geometry.

    His calculus is just a mathematical representation of the geometry.

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