If Galileo dealt with average speed. why did Newton invent a new field of mathematics?


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Newton used the methods of calculus to solve the problem of planetary motion, the shape of the surface of a rotating fluid, the oblateness of the earth, the motion of a weight sliding on a cycloid, and many other problems discussed in his Principia Mathematica (1687). ChaCha on!

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