Image: Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (London, 1687), title page · Public domain
A Knaph story
The Story of Motion
How people found out what keeps things moving, and what stops them
c. 350 BCE – 1968
From Aristotle's movers to the flight of Apollo 8: the arguments, the experiments and the three laws that explained why a ball rolls, a stone falls and the Moon goes round.
A Knaph story
The Story of Motion
How people found out what keeps things moving, and what stops them
c. 350 BCE – 1968
From Aristotle's movers to the flight of Apollo 8: the arguments, the experiments and the three laws that explained why a ball rolls, a stone falls and the Moon goes round.