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Although Newton based his statement of the law of inertia (first law of motion) on a description by Galileo the 1st recorded description was by the Chinese philosopher Mo Tzu, in the 3rd century BC and in the 11th century by the Arabian scientists Alhazen and Avicenna. It was the Italian Galileo.

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