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Also Known As g-force • gravitation

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Kip Thorne
American physicist
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin
Flemish mathematician
Pierre Bouguer
French scientist
Albert Of Saxony
German philosopher
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Dutch geophysicist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American scientist

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