How Was Gravity Discovered‪?‬

We understand that gravity is fundamentally a purely attractive force – it can only pull, never push – and that it is generated by any object with mass. But humankind has been trying to find a better answer to the question 'what is gravity?' for hundreds of years.

Italian Galileo Galilei was one of the first scientists to investigate the way objects are caused to move, around the turn of the 17th century

However, it was not until Isaac Newton started seriously investigating gravity later that century, that we really began to understand this feature of the Universe.