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ACCELERATION: The idea was known to Lucretius, but it was not conceptualized: lightning must gain speed again and again; a speed that increases along the way (Ch. 3, 15: Song VI, 341).
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Dassonville, P.F. (2017). Specific Glossary. In: The Invention of Time and Space. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46040-6_12
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