... my own creative process and that of my chosen creative, Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher, creative individual, and probably the one person in the history of the world I would not hesitate in calling a genius. Newton, a man who defined gravity, described the structure of the solar system, and when conventional maths was unsatisfactory to describe his ... Preparation plays a vital role in just about any endeavour, creative or otherwise, and this was just as true for Newton. He studied in many fields, but became more associated w...

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... and coming up with his own, he is considered by many as the father of modern science. "Galileo Galilei is often called "the first scientist"," (Galileo Galilei: Super Scientist in History http://www.llnl.gov/llnl06news/Community/super_science_newsletter/) for all the work he did and because, he was on the front line of new and advanced technology paving the ... way for others to come. Galileo was also dubbed ""the father of modern physics -- indeed of modern science altogether."" (His Place in Science, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/science.html) for his outstanding work on ... p...

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... return to Lincolnshire. There, in less than two years, while he was still under 25 years old, he began advances in mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy that would take an effect on the ways of science through out history. He had reached the conclusion during the two plague years that white light is not a simple entity. Every scientist since Aristotle had believed ... appeared to have suffered a nervous breakdown. His mother died the following year and Newton went into a period of no communication with the world. Newton's greatest achievement was his work in physics and celestial ...

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... way society views the world as a whole, in other words is the current theories scientists hold on the way the world is built up. Paradigms change in the course of history. For example, the Aristotelian world view (the way Aristotle and the people in his time recognized the way their world works) was replaced by many other world views until today ... 's current Einsteinium view came along. An example of a paradigm previous to this one is the Newtonian view, where the physics of Isaac Newton were correct. So why does a paradigm change? Quite simply, newly discovered unsolved puzzles accumu...

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... years (so that is measured in y-1, and the central mass is the sun (so that , i.e., the solar mass), then Kepler's law takes the extremely simple form (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/KeplersThirdLaw.html) (http://javalab.uoregon.edu/dcaley/kepler/Kepler.html) Another influenceal person in Astronomy was Isaac Newton. He also developed 3 laws that had a great impact on Astronomy today. Newton ... direction of the shore, the boat tends to move in the opposite direction (leaving us facedown in the water, if we aren't careful!). (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newto...

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