Hi everyone.
Quick question, does anyone know what gravity was called before it was called gravity?
A quick question but probably no quick answer because back in that time almost all "scientific texts" would have been written in Latin.
I expect that "gravity" would have been written as "gravitas", which literally translates as "weight" or "heaviness".
The ideas of "things being attracted" goes way back, probably to Aristotle:
Thus in Aristotle's system heavy bodies are not attracted to the Earth by an external force of gravity, but tend toward the center of the universe because of an inner gravitas or heaviness.
To Aristotle the earth was the "the center of the universe".
Maybe someone else has better information.