On Jul 22, 2015 9:46 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Thursday 23 July 2015 04:09, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > tl;dr To me (as unprofessional a musician as mathematician) I find it > > arbitrary that Newton *discovered* gravity whereas Beethoven *composed* > > the 9th symphony. > > Newton didn't precisely *discover* gravity. I'm pretty sure that people > before him didn't think that they were floating through the air > weightless... > > *wink* > > > Did gravity exist before Newton? Then he discovered it (in some sense). > > Did the 9th Symphony exist before Beethoven? No? Then he composed it.
Gravity existed before Newton, but the *theory* of gravity did not, so he composed the theory?
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