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believed the Earth was center of the universe.This was wrong but was accepted for many centuries
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used the sun to measure the size of the Earth. He was only 211 miles off true measurements
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Earth revolved around the sun. His idea wasn't completely correct but changed how scientist viewed the solar system
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He found the 3 laws of planetary motion. he was the first to state the way to understand the motion of the planets was of the same force of the sun. These are the laws Newton was able to use to establish universal gravitation.
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Calculated 3 laws describing the motion of forces between objects, now known as Newtons Law
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Suggested that energy and mass are the same thing in different forms. This foreshadowed atomic power and the atomic bomb