... his dying day knowing that the uproar they would create would shake the foundations of the church and the foundations of Aristotelian mechanics which held most of the beliefs of the sixteenth century in place . With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people were torn from their Middle Age intellectual darkness and placed under the ... glaring lights of reality. This theory would be followed by many others which would shake the very foundation of societal belief. One of the most influential of these has been Newton's theories o...

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