(1473-1543)

With the Age of Reason came a new faith in law and order. Modern science arose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and filled men with visions of a new day of peace and harmony. Pioneers like Copernicus forced men to think in a new way about the universe. Copernicus insisted that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe.

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(1642-1727)

All of the scientific discoveries made by men like Copernicus, Kepler, and Galilei had to be united in one all-embracing principle which would explain the motion of bodies in the heavens and present the universe as one great machine operating according to unalterable laws. This was the feat of the most illustrious scientist of the Age of Reason, Isaac Newton. In 1687 Newton published his momentous work, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, in which all laws of motion, in the heavens and on the earth, were harmonized in a master principle for the universe, the law of gravitation.

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