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And forces, vectors, gravity,
momentum, impulse and moments
Newton published his three laws in 1687 in his Principia
Mathematica.
The laws are quite intuitive (although it seems a bit
strange to attach the adjective “intuitive” to a set of
statements that took millennia for humans to write down).
They may be formulated as follows (although there are
other possible variations).