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Taking the measure of Newton's gravity law. (Isaac Newton's theory of gravity's dependence on separation of two objects and their masses) (Brief Article)
Science News; 10/3/1992; Peterson, Ivars; 421 words
; ... deviations from Newton's gravitational law, but have generally ... To check Newton's gravitational law, Paik and his colleagues ... confirmed that Newton's law of gravity holds to ... technology, for detecting gravitational waves and for observing ...
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Gathering Shells by the Ocean of Truth.(Isaac Newton by James Gleick)(Book Review)
World and I; 10/1/2003; GRAHAM, PETER W.; 2635 words
; ... discoveries. We know Newton's principles of gravitation and of optics. We envision a pensive ... motion, explained the principles of gravitation, and gathered together the phenomena ... a metaphor that occurred to many as news of the Principia spread. At last a public ... profit--that he had devoted to natural ...
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If you understand only one physics formula, it should be Isaac Newton's immortal F=ma
The Washington Post; 9/13/1995; Curt Suplee; 3163 words
; ... much F. This Second Law lets you calculate ... Combined with the First Law (objects at rest or ... force) and the Third Law (for every action ... system, even before gravitation, was mathematics ... well as the Second Law. Ironically, Newton ... actually stated the Second Law this way: "The ...
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"Who Made It?" The Isaac Newton Orrery Story
Skeptic; 10/1/2003; McIver, Tom; 6977 words
; ... the laws of planetary motion and of Newton's recent work on gravitation, Lord Orrery had a , working model of the solar system built ... direct control. It was Newtonian physics-the idea of universal gravitation and scientific laws of force and motion operating throughout ...
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"Who made it?" The Isaac Newton Orrery story: another mythic tale misused by creationists.
Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 9/22/2003; McIver, Tom; 6878 words
; ... the laws of planetary motion and of Newton's recent work on gravitation, Lord Orrery had a working model of the solar system built ... control. It was Newtonian physics--the idea of universal gravitation and scientific laws of force and motion operating throughout ...
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Lockean essences, political posturing, and John Toland's reading of Isaac Newton's principia (1).
Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2003; Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R.; 6599 words
; ... complimented his worldview, such as universal gravitation. It may not be difficult to persuade ... to deduce it from the common Laws of Gravitation, is not only to imagine Matter alike ... of the centripetal force of universal gravitation, Toland believed he had accounted for ...
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6m bid to keep works of Newton
Evening Standard - London; 8/23/2000; SIMON DE BURTON; 392 words
; ... letters on key scientific and mathematical matters such as gravitation, calculus and optics, currently belongs to the Earl of Macclesfield ... Principia Mathematica, his most famous work on the theory of gravitation and the laws of motion, in 1685. He died in 1727 and is buried ...
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OUR PIVOTAL FIGURES OF THE MILLENNIUM ISAAC NEWTON
The Boston Globe; 12/20/1999; JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE STAFF; 531 words
; ... in Lincolnshire, Newton solved the puzzle: He discovered the law of gravity. The same force that pulls an apple to the ground ... published the "Principia," his great treatise on motion and gravitation, the effect was seismic. Newton's discovery, says Alan Charles ...
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The Scientific Revolution Reshapes the World: Sir Isaac Newton.(biographical details of the English scientist-mathematician)
World and I; 4/1/1999; OLSO, RICHARD G.; 452 words
; ... in other words, he began to think about the law of universal gravitation. Upon Barrow's departure for London in 1667 ... motion and, based on them, established his law of universal gravitation. Finally, much of his mathematical work was ...
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Newton's clockwork universe: how we misunderstood the greatest scientist.(Isaac Newton and the exhibition of his works at the National Library in Jerusalem)
Science & Spirit; 9/1/2007; Wilson, Jamie; 914 words
; ... first conceives his theory of gravity (the fabled apple). 1672: Elected to the Royal Society. 1686: Full theory of universal gravitation. 1687: Publishes The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia Mathematica), his first masterpiece. 1689 ...
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