... first volume of his mathematical collection called the Principia, recognized as the greatest scientific book ever written. Newton merged the theories of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, and wrote the mathematical proofs for his universal law of gravitation. Newton explained how "every object in the universe was attracted to every other object with a force that is directly proportional to the product of ... medicine, Galileo was not interested in his professors" old-fashioned ideas and was frustrated that they were never allowed to experiment on patients or cadavers. While walking past a...

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