Isaac Newton: Discoverer of Universal Laws
By David Harriman
Author’s note: The following is adapted from a chapter of my book in progress, “The Inductive Method in Physics.”
In tribute to his predecessors, Isaac Newton (1643–1727) once wrote: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”1 In the first half of the 17th century, two giants stood out above the rest: Galileo Galilei (1564–1642…
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