Named after states who or what a mathematical object's own name honors. Wikipedia notes the Fibonacci sequence is "named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci," even though the numbers themselves were "first described in Indian mathematics as early as 200 BC." This dimension separates an object's namesake from the person who actually discovered it first.
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Newton's theory of motion, culminating in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) in 1687, modeled three Galilean laws of motion along with Newton's law of universal gravitation on a framework of absolute space-hypothesized by Newton as a physically real entity of Euclidean geometric structure extending infinitely in all directions-while presuming absolute time, supposedly justifying knowledge of absolute motion, the object's motion with respect to absolute space.
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