law of universal gravitation
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Newton wrote the law of universal gravitation, inspired by a falling apple.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Newton, who formulated the law of universal gravitation and laid the foundations of modern mathematics, was buried in the abbey in 1727.
From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2018
The relationships he discovered, codified as Newton’s laws and the law of universal gravitation, are still taught as foundational material in physics today, and his calculus has spawned entire fields of mathematics.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
The Daily News is surmising the “best interests of baseball” clause, but by the end of the week, it may be a United Nations resolution or Newton’s law of universal gravitation.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2013
But yet, if we suppose the nebul� to be governed by the law of universal gravitation, the attractive force of the luminous matter upon itself, must be sufficient to bend the spirals into their forms.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
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