Isaac Newton created a unified view of force and motion in which motion
everywhere in the universe can be explained by the same few rules. His
mathematical analysis of gravitational force and motion showed that planetary
orbits had to be the very ellipses that Kepler had proposed two generations
earlier.
| See the general discussion in Unifying Concepts
and Processes: Systems, order, and organization.
See also Content Standard G History and Nature of Science (grades
9-12): Historical Perspectives.
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