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| | Thanks to all for the comments and suggested resources.
| | The reason I asked the question is that, after many years of | teaching Physics, that the idea of separating the concepts of | weight and mass seems to be decidedly non trivial especially | to thinkers who are trapped on the earth's surface. We seem | to take it for granted today, especially in the space age, | that the distinction is obvious but my question was simply to | get at the mechanism for its development. What was it that | lead to the need for this concept?
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