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This 5 page paper discusses the contributions of Sir Isaac Newton to the understanding of the universe. The main elements of his theories are explained and his connection to the work of Galileo and Kepler. Overall scientific and social impacts of Newton's work included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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ships to reach for the stars. His name was Sir Isaac Newton. His natural philosophy and cosmological ideas changed the way mankind has viewed the world ever since. To call
him a rebel would be closer to the truth than many may ever know. Later, it was discovered that while he was studying at the university(a mediocre performance at best)
he was continuing to educate himself with the theories of others who inspired his thinking. Among those was Kepler, who had proposed three empirical laws of Planetary Motion. What seemed
to trouble Newton about Keplers work was that while it seemed feasible, there was no way to prove it. Ironically enough, this would be the same criticism that would be
leveled against him. While on leave from the University, because of the black plague, he would devote himself full time to the observation of natural laws of motion. He began
to revise Keplers theorems, which would be considered very brash for a young university student to do. However, where Kepler could not prove his theories mathematically, Newton could. In
fact, what Newton discovered was that Keplers work was particularly useful in thinking about how the planets moved, but the forces which acted upon them were not discussed. If the
forces which acted on objects on the Earth were the same for heavenly bodies, then it would explain mathematically Keplers theories. This challenged all of the commonly held theories of
the separation of the heavens and the earth. He would go on to show that Keplers laws were exceptions to the rule and when calculations were corrected and amended, they
fit into the Newtonian Laws. "Newtons theory of gravitation and his contribution to astronomy mark the final stage of the transformation of the Aristotelian world-picture begun by Copernicus. For
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