Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 - 31 March 1727]) Man behind 9.81m/Sec.Squ. An English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian was a Vegetarian. He has been considered to be the greatest and most influential scientist ever lived. His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays 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 motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Keplers laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 05:14:26 +0000
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