History
German physicist Heinrich Magnus described the effect in 1852. However, in 1672, Isaac Newton had described it and correctly inferred the cause after observing tennis players in his Cambridge college. In 1742, Benjamin Robins, a British artillery engineer, explained deviations in the trajectories of musket balls in terms of the Magnus effect.
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