Da Vinci understood key aspect of gravity centuries before Einstein, lost sketches reveal
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Da Vinci’s sketches, which were forgotten for decades, show triangles formed by sand-like particles pouring from a jar. These falling grains depicted experiments to show that gravity was a form of acceleration more than 400 years before Einstein did, a new study argues.
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