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Describe the following physicist and his big contribution to Science. Explain the theory he proposed.

Sir Isaac Newton/theory of gravity.

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Isaac Newton is most famously known for the development of calculus (simultaneous to Leibnitz), and using it to develop a model for gravitational force. Newton sought to take all previous knowledge of gravity (which was very little), and model it mathematically in order to accurately predict the movements of objects falling. In working towards this goal, he had to develop a completely new area of math that could account for changes in numerical variables he was trying to measure, such as ...

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