The early history of mechanics includes scholars such as Jean Buridan (1295–1358) who developed the impetus theory that eventually led to the concept of inertia, and advancements such as the 14th-century Mertonian rule (after Merton College, Oxford) for the distance traveled in uniformly accelerated motion which in the hands of Galileo 300 years later resulted in the development of the concept of acceleration. I believe it is possible that we may be at the same stage in discovering new laws of nature at the human level as the medievals were 600–700 years ago in their movement toward the discovery of the laws of nature at the simplest level, the laws of motion in mechanics.
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