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Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein (arstechnica.com)

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Engineers re-created one of Leonardo's experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus, which Newton invented only around 150 years after Leonardo's death.

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[–] Jambalaya 10 points 1 year ago

What a cool read. I wonder how much knowledge he may have acquired that he was unable to pass on to the next generation because there was simply too much. Seems like his notebooks were a bit inscrutable.