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Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 November 2012 05:57:59PM 1 point [-]

So that's true, but until the late 1700s (essentially post Newton) no one had any capacity to do so (because no ideas anyone had connected the two at all in a useful way). Would this sort of claim then been valid in 1650?