The medieval philosophers took one more important step concerning bodies in free fall that would later
turn out to be important in understanding projectile motion and orbits. In the 14th century, one of the
best-known Merton scholars, Oresme, wrote a treatise showing how a graphical method can be used to
represent the relationships among time, distance, and velocity under uniform acceleration, thus paving the
way for a quantitative representation of motion that we later see in the works of Galileo (Galilei 1638) and
Newton (1687, 1728).