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Demystifying Newton: The Force Behind the Genius
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Demystifying Newton: The Force Behind the Genius

By Veronica Ryan

Nov 20, 2008
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Einstein credited Isaac Newton, the father of physics and arguably the founder of scientific certainty, with “the greatest advance in thought that a single individual was ever privileged to make.”1 The compliment is not hyperbole: In his Principia 2 and the discoveries that preceded it, Newton single-handedly deciphered more of the universe’s enigmas than…

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