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NEWTON'S ERA
 
 
GALILEO’S INSIGHTS

 

Galileo Galilei, the father of modern science and one of the founders of the renaissance era, profoundly affected the scientific methods through his principle of directly questioning the existing ideas and use of mathematics instead of just common sense to understand the natural laws. Albert Einstein called him the father of modern science. Galileo’s support for Copernicanism made the idea of heliocentricity very famous among scientific groups. His rejection of most of the Aristotelian ideas started the true era of enlightenment in scientific world.

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TOWARDS NEWTON’S THEORIES

Newton was born on the same day of Galileo’s death. This was the time of great scientific developments. Tycho Brahe’s observations of planetary motions were used extensively by Johannes Kepler to formulate the three laws, famously called the Kepler’s laws of planetary motions. A vivid account of Kepler’s laws is given in the book - ‘Ideas And Opinions Of Albert Einstein’.

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LAWS OF MOTION

 

Newton was a reincarnation of Galileo, a rebirth of Galileo to take his work to greater domains. What Newton did for Science, no one had done till the arrival of Einstein. Newton and Einstein had striking similarities. Both worked on the principle of relativity, on gravitation and both were deeply interested in the nature of light. It is difficult to say who was greater. Both of them brought new ideas to the world. We will first see Newton’s contributions. Next few sections are devoted to his works and their development.

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