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To What Extent Did Isaac Newton Discover The Law Of Gravity

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In 1687 Isaac Newton discover the law of gravity. Sir Isaac Newton was thinking about the forces of nature, when all of a sudden he saw an apple fall off a tree. When that happened he realized that the moon would “fly” away from the Earth in a straight line tangent to its orbit, a force was causing the moon not to fall towards Earth. Newton named that force gravity. He also realized that between each object there was gravitational force. Using the idea of gravity he was able to explain the astronomical observations of Kepler. Using the law of gravity including the work of Galileo and Kepler it proved that the Earth wasn't the center of the solar system.

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