1. Isaac Newton
Newton's life and work are, in fact, among the most interesting in history. ... Copernicus, to the consternation of the Church in particular, asserted that it was the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church . ... 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. ... Newton was particularly concerned with the manner in which planets maintained their course around the sun and th...
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