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We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For Almost 300 Years

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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.

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Newtonian Physics Needs to Be Rewritten: The Error Hidden for 300 Years

The Newtonian physics we learned in school may not be exactly what Newton had in mind: a thorough analysis of the original texts has revealed a “little,” so to speak, translation error that has spanned the centuries, influencing the way we interpret the motion of objects in the universe. Newtonian physics, the discovery that changes everything Daniel Hoek, a philosopher of language and mathematics at Virginia Tech, has made a surprising discover…

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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.

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