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clockwork universe
- An image of the universe as a clock wound up by God and ticking along with its gears governed by the laws of physics . This idea was very important in the Enlightenment , when scientists realized that Newton's laws of motion , including the law of universal gravitation , could explain the behavior of the solar system .
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