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Elaina’s Experiments: Newton’s laws of motion

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Learn about Newton’s laws of motion with household items. Justin Janssen, Program Specialist with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, joined 17 News at Noon with ...
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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 ...
Hackaday

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 ...
Scientific American

Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years

A subtle mistranslation of Isaac Newton’s first law of motion that flew under the radar for three centuries is giving new insight into what the pioneering natural philosopher was thinking when he laid ...