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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