Apple QuickTime movie | 1996-06-28 | 1.6 MB | 320x240 | 5fps | 1 minute, 11 seconds | [MooV/TVOD]
Transcription: A pantheon of 17th century luminaries laid the foundation for modern empirical science, both as a method of discovery and a way of thinking. The inventor of the telescope, Galileo Galilei, incurred the wrath of the Catholic Church by affirming Copernicus' theory that the Earth moved around the sun. Kepler's laws of planetary motion further confirmed the Copernican view. Sir Isaac Newton, born the same year Galileo died, completed the by explaining universal gravitation and the laws of motion in mathematical terms. He is also credited with the discovery of calculus. Other scientific giants of t ...
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