Alternative World - no Newton

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Liebnitz's calculus ought to do gunnery calcs just as well as Newton's did.

Only if you have Newton's laws of motion to apply it to. I've never heard that Leibniz came up with those. On the Continent they were still messing around with nonsense like Descartes's vortices.

Bill Stoddard

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Only if you have Newton's laws of motion to apply it to. I've never heard that Leibniz came up with those.

Robert Hooke did. And Newton in Principia credits Wren, Hooke, and Halley with priority for the inverse square law of gravity with respect to heavenly bodies.