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Newton’s Laws

Book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”) laid the foundations for classical mechanics. It mathematically described the observations of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, the three laws of motion, and the universal law of mutual gravitation

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