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   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   > About rest/rest motion/motion and equal/opposite, sort   
   > of Galileo's "three laws" that Newton makes "one law"   
   > then that Einstein sort of scratches away "rest/rest"   
   > and calls that "a theory of relative motion", [...]   
      
   Pure fantasy.   
      
   1. Galilei postulated the principle of relativity ("Galileo's ship"),   
      not any "three laws".   
      
   2. Newton formulated three laws of motion and one of gravitation   
      (among other theories, some of which have been falsified, too).   
      
   3. Observations showed successively that these principles and laws are   
      not quite correct (constancy of the speed of light in vacuum: Rømer/   
      Huygens, Fizeau, Michelson/Morley; deviation of orbits from predictions:   
      Le Verrier [Mercury]; deflection of light), and Einstein explained,   
      with special and then general relativity, why.   
      
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