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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 new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...
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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 ...