jul 5, 1687 - Laws of Motion

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This is the year that Isaac Newton's book, "Principia Mathematica Philosophae Naturalis", was published. In this book, Newton presents his three laws of motion, which, when looked at next to Kepler's laws of gravitational movement, explained the elliptical movement of the planets. These laws of motion revolutionized science, introducing properties and equations that could explain the movement of any object, including celestial bodies. The Wright brothers used Newton's laws in their aircraft flight tests, and his laws have been established as a crucial part of aerodynamics since then.

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