In which country was gravity first found?

Answer 1

The idea of Gravity is said to have been first thought of by Sir Isaac newton, who was born in and resided in England. According to the famous story; the idea of gravity came when sitting under an apple tree, observing an apple falling to Earth.

Answer:

People had noticed that things fall down long before Newton. The original discoverer of the concept is not known. Early recorded observations and thoughts on the topic include:

• In the 4th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the nature of objects caused them to move downward toward the center of the universe, their natural place.
• In Book VII of his "De Architectura", Vitruvius the Roman engineer and architect agreed with Aristotle that gravity is not dependent on a substance's "weight" but on its "nature".
• In the Middle Ages the Indian astronomer Brahmagupta, in his Brahmasphuta Siddhanta ("The Opening of the Universe") proposed that gravity was a force of attraction
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), proposed a the theory of attraction between masses.
• In 1121, Al-Khazini, in The Book of the Balance of Wisdom, was one of the first to propose that gravity varies with the distance from the centre of the Earth.
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi in the 12th century discussed the acceleration of falling objects.
• In the 17th century there was a large amount of European thought on gravity by people such as Copernicus, Galileo, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton.