Total relativity

The total relativity is a fallen through theory of Christian Huygens after it had had a perfect command of the Relativité galiléenne applied to the Théorie of the shocks.

Indeed, it appears clearly that Galileo is mistaken, by regarding a uniform rotation movement of a solid as nothing : that went in the logic of the metal disc slipping on the ice: logically it must describe the Géodésique Earth, i.e. a large circle.

It is known that Huygens thinking much of this problem finds acceleration in a circular motion and the Centrifugal force “discovers”. He thus correctly explains the experiment of the conical Pendule.

He could not continue his idea (which would have perhaps led it to the Force of Coriolis), because since 1684, one knows that Newton works in its Principia. Huygens is pained by the acrimony of Newton with respect to its work (Newton defends a corpuscular theory of the light, whereas Huygens worked on the light as a wave) and will be the wrong to be in the camp of “Cartesian” (the word indicating here those which believe in the theses of Descartes in physics, and not those which adhere to the philosophical doctrines with its name, the Cartésianisme) by refuting the theory of Newton in 1690, which discredited all its work.

References

Christian Huygens: Of motu corporum ex percussione : Question of the existence and the perceptibility of the " movement absolu"

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