Assertion: newton's body | /r/CapableOf | reveal the earth's motion
Facets:
value: experimentally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The main point was to indicate how Newton thought the falling body could experimentally reveal the Earth's motion by its direction of deviation from the vertical, but he went on hypothetically to consider how its motion could continue if the solid Earth had not been in the way (on a spiral path to the centre).