Newton

• Followed Galileo and Kepler f.4-28

  • Followed Galileo’s tradition of making controlled experiments to learn how things worked.
  • Also (like Galileo) performed “thought experiments” to clarify
  • Did fundamental work in
    • Light
      • spectral colors of sunlight
      • interference of light waves
      • invented reflecting telescope
    • Mathematics
      • invented Calculus
        • needed to treat motion which is continuous
      • Motion
        • Three fundamental laws of motion
        • Universal Law of Gravity

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