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01-28-2014, 07:31 PM

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Agemegos

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Re: Alternative World - no Newton

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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.

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