Re: The rope

On 250523 23:37, Luigi Fortunati wrote:

In any case, this is all your interpretation and not that of Newton who
writes: "[the rope] will impede the progress of the stone as much as it
will promote the progress of the horse".

Newton is implicitly assuming a massless rope; this was a common assumption
then (see e.g. Dugas, "A history of mechanics"), just as it is today, in
this kind of problems. For a massless rope his statement is true, since the
gravitational force on the rope is then zero.