Intellectual History
An enthusiast's oversimplified history of science makes it sound as though nobody before Newton had noticed things fall.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-04-17-intellectual-history/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Then Copernicus pointed out that the Earth orbits the sun. And next, Galileo proved that things fall in parabolas."
B: "Either the past was populated by idiots, or you're wildly oversimplifying this intellectual history."
A: "But it all changed when Newton found gravity. Nobody had noticed it before!"