[Ads-l] Antedating of "Gravity" (Physics)

[Shapiro, Fred]

gravity (OED, 4.a., 1622)

1576 Leonard Digges A Prognostication Everlastinge of Right Good Effecte Fruitfully Augmented by the Auctor (unnumbered pages) (Early English Books Online)

The moste effectuall reasons that they produce to prove the earthes stability in the middle or lowest part of the world, is that of Gravitye and Levitye.

Fred Shapiro


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