How Isaac Newton Changed the World


	How Isaac Newton Changed the World

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6-9-2008 4:48 AM

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When little baby Isaac was born in a Lilliputian English village, premature and small enough to fit into a quart pot, he wasn't expected to survive. 
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To the probable dismay of some befuddled calculus and physics students the world over, Isaac Newton didn't just live, he grew up and lived long enough to become the single-<A href="http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/?cat=genius" linkindex="22">most influential scientist</A>  of the 17th-century. 
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Newton's wide range of discoveries, from his theories of optics to his groundbreaking work on the laws of motion and gravity, formed the basis for modern physics.
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The <A href="http://www.livescience.com/history/060111_genius_like_us.html" linkindex="23">true genius</A>  of his work, experts think, is how he ultimately took those theories and applied them to the universe at large, explaining the motions of the Sun and planets in a way that had never been done before.
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The common image of Isaac Newton is that of a white-haired scientist crouched at the base of a tree. Upon getting bumped on the head by a falling apple, Newton airily dreams up the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070810_gm_gravity.html" linkindex="24">laws of gravity</A>  and the rest, as they say, is history. 
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