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Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton

ByRobert Stawell Ball

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and theologian who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motion of objects on Earth and that of celestial bodies is governed by the same set of natural laws: by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation he removed the last doubts about heliocentrism and advanced the scientific revolution.

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Publication Date
Oct 27, 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781387324538
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Robert Stawell Ball

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