gravitation
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Newton wrote the law of universal gravitation, inspired by a falling apple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Jones did it by showing that Ricardo had made these universal rules that he said were as certain as the principle of gravitation.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025
Monitoring the Achilles is important as sudden reloading, such as that induced by a change in gravitation force, could result in injury or even rupture.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
While TV station owners are enjoying the changing tide by picking up valuable sports programming, they know the audience’s gravitation to streaming is not going to reverse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Even as a young man, Newton was impatient with insubstantial questions, such as whether light was “a substance or an accident,” or how gravitation could act over an intervening vacuum.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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