5 Questions
What is the equation for universal gravitation according to Newton's law?
$F = G \frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}$
What did Newton call the reasoning behind the derivation of the law of universal gravitation?
Inductive reasoning
When was Newton's work 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica' first published?
5 July 1687
What did the publication of the law of universal gravitation mark?
The first great unification
What did Robert Hooke claim about Newton's derivation of the inverse square law?
Newton had obtained the inverse square law from him
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