Isaac Newton · Science

The System of the World

Newton’s <em>Principia</em> and the birth of modern physics - the unified mathematical system that brought the whole cosmos under universal law, defined the method of science, and inaugurated the modern scientific age.

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You learned how Newton’s Principia unified physics into a single mathematical system and defined the modern scientific method. Explain what made it so revolutionary and why it is considered the founding work of modern physical science.

Leads to Galileo.

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