Leonardo da Vinci's Forgotten Experiments Explored Gravity as a Form of Acceleration

Why are human geniuses so rare? How many female geniuses were overlooked, not taken seriously, or ignored?

It can take up to hundreds of years to understand them better! The contemporaries of such geniuses were and still are probably overwhelmed to keep up!

Even Leonardo da Vinci still surprises us!

From the abstract:

"Despite limited tools, Leonardo da Vinci displayed ingenious problem-solving. The authors examine a combination of Leonardo’s thought and physical experiments regarding the acceleration of falling objects. Leonardo recorded that if a water-pouring vase moves transversally (sideways), mimicking the trajectory of a vertically falling object, it generates a right (as in orthogonal) triangle with equal leg length, composed of falling material lining up diagonally (forming the hypotenuse) and the vase trajectory forming one of the legs. On the hypotenuse, Leonardo wrote “Equatione di Moti,” or equalization of motions, noting the equivalence of the two orthogonal motions, one effected by gravity and the other prescribed by the experimenter. The authors present an analytical solution using Newtonian mechanics to confirm Leonardo’s “Equivalence principle.”"

Leonardo da Vinci's Forgotten Experiments Explored Gravity as a Form of Acceleration | www.caltech.edu Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time.

Da Vinci’s understanding of gravity was centuries ahead of his time Engineers re-created his experiment with computer modeling and found yet another surprise from the brilliant man.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Visualization of Gravity as a Form of Acceleration (no public access)