Did you solve it? Isaac Newton’s tower drop puzzle

The solution to the seventeenth century stumper Earlier today I set you a puzzle that Isaac Newton posed in 1679 in a latter to Robert Hooke.

I mentioned that the answer is counter-intuitive, and also gave you the hint that it might have something to do with figure skating. Here’s the problem again, with its solution. The tower drop slightly to the west slightly to the east exactly at the bottom Continue reading...