It is a little-known fact that Issac Newton neither discovered nor invented the laws of physics. He could not have invented them as they were already there, and to credit him with discovery is too much as well. What good old crazy Issac did was compiled the observations and theories of the natural philosophers of his time, threw out the stuff put forth by the Aristotelians, and found where the connections were. He had to build a new tool to show that the connections were there (and there is a valid question as to how much of that was his own origonal work) but he essentially took the theories that explained what was already there, pinned them together, cut out the unneeded parts (initially with a butcher's knife, later with a scalpel) and put them in a useful form. The equations are just the face of his work, they tell you in numbers what trality tells you in spins and impacts and curves and stillness.

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