How come it took so long for gravity to be figured out?
The earth might be round; but why don’t folks fall off of it in Australia?
That’s the beauty of the earth being round. Every point on the circumference of the earth is the “top”. It did take a long time to figure out gravity. Many had a name for the force before Newton. Aristotle had an idea all the way back to antiquity. Newton figured out the how...but not the why of gravity. It’s took until 1915 and Einstein to provide the why.