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Aristotle did the first recorded speculations on the nature of gravity.

Speculations by various philosophers continued for centuries.

By 1544, experimenters had shown that Aristotles speculations were false.

Galileo Galilei did the first mathematical description of gravity at the Earth's surface.

Isaac newton showed that the same force (gravity) that caused objects to fall to the Earth also caused the planets to go around our Sun.

Albert Einstein showed that gravity was not EXACTLY a force between two masses (although that is a useful approximation) but a warping of space by each mass.

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What scientist first discovered the force of gravity?

Sir Isaac Newton is credited with first describing the force of gravity in his book "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" published in 1687.


Who is the British scientist who first described gravity?

Newton. He was the first person to described gravity in terms of mathematics. It is called Newton's law of universal gravity.


Why is gravity called gravity and not anything else?

The term "gravity" comes from the Latin word "gravitas," which means weight or heaviness. It was first used by Sir Isaac Newton in his work on the laws of motion and universal gravitation. The term has since become commonly used to describe the force that attracts objects with mass towards each other.


Did Einstein invent gravity?

No. Nobody invented gravity. it has existed since the beginning of the universe. Isaac Newton is generally credited with "discovering" gravity, as he was the first to describe it accurately: as an attractive force between all objects with mass. Einstein later refined the model of gravity to how modern physicists understand it as a distortion of time and space.


What scientist discovered this force?

The force of gravity was first described by Sir Isaac Newton, an English mathematician and physicist, in the 17th century through his law of universal gravitation. Newton's work laid the foundation for our understanding of gravity as a force that attracts objects to one another based on their masses and distances.