which force was the first to be discovered?

The first force to be discovered and scientifically described was the force of gravity. Ancient philosophers and scientists observed gravitational effects, but it was Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century who fully understood and formulated the law of universal gravitation, explaining the force that attracts bodies toward each other with a specific mathematical relationship. This law showed that gravitational force is proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, establishing gravity as a fundamental force in physics.