Before Galileo, Newton and Einstein, it seems to be Leonardo da Vinci who started piecing together the gravity puzzle.

Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time.

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The 'gravitational constant' that Leonardo measured is the local acceleration of gravity, usually written as g (lower case).

High precision: the BASE experiment at CERN has put tight limits on some properties of the antiproton. (Courtesy: Maximilien Brice/CERN/CC-BY-4.0) Precise measurements of the motions of antiprotons ...

The experiment, which combines an atom interferometer for precise gravity measurements with an optical lattice to hold the atoms in place, allowed the researchers to immobilize free-falling atoms ...

It's such a big leap that he spent five years just tinkering around with the implications of gravity = acceleration before he could make the next jump.

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A new look at da Vinci’s papers reveals his insightful attempts to probe the nature of gravity 500 years ago.