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Have We Been Misinterpreting Newton’s First Law for 300 Years?

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a ...
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Newton's First Law of Motion

Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Dr. Rob and the Crew use bowling balls, beads, and bottles to investigate ...
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We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For Almost 300 Years

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three ...
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Mistranslation Of Newton’s First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...