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.

Answer 2

The concept of gravity was first discovered by Sir Isaac Newton in England in the 17th century. He proposed the law of universal gravitation that describes the force of gravity between two objects.