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Isaac Newton has been principally credited with the Theory of Gravity but recent studies have unearthed a document by the great John Edwards - not related to the psychic John Edward - that have shown that this new scientific discovery was formulated much earlier. This implies that Newton may have been nothing more than a plagiarist, though a clever and very successful one.

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  • Isaac Newton has been principally credited with the Theory of Gravity but recent studies have unearthed a document by the great John Edwards - not related to the psychic John Edward - that have shown that this new scientific discovery was formulated much earlier. This implies that Newton may have been nothing more than a plagiarist, though a clever and very successful one.
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  • Isaac Newton has been principally credited with the Theory of Gravity but recent studies have unearthed a document by the great John Edwards - not related to the psychic John Edward - that have shown that this new scientific discovery was formulated much earlier. This implies that Newton may have been nothing more than a plagiarist, though a clever and very successful one. The man who it seems got there first was the scientist John Edwards. A respectable man who preferred to wear his hair 'unwigged', Edwards had already described the theory we now know as gravity as Descentiousness, and penned his seminal work Potissimus de Rectus Cado in 1654 when Newton was still running around in short breeches. This is a full 33 years before Newton got round to writing Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Gravity for Beginners) but Edwards's book got overlooked and was at length forgotten and filed away on an obscure shelf at Cambridge University.
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