Scientists+Who+Influenced+Newton

=Any information on Newton's influences: Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, etc.=

- Copernicus went against the teachings of Aristotle and challenged the conventional way of thinking about the universe. - Galileo also questioned Aristotle and he was one of the first scientists who tried to prove his theories by experimentation. His experiments helped Newton to develop the laws of gravity. - Galileo was one of the scientists who was brought before the Inquisition. In 1632, the church made Galileo denounce his work, saying that he agreed with Copernicus on the heliocentric theory. - Johannes Kepler's ellipse theory helped Newton to compose the theories of gravity. - Kepler's three laws of motion are (1) Each planet travels in an ellipse around the sun. The sun is at one of the focal points of the ellipse. (2) The speed of a planet traveling around the sun changes all the time. It changes in such a way that a line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of a planet sweeps over equal areas in equal lengths of time. (3) The time it takes a planet to orbit the sun is related to its distance from the sun.