Newtonian Mechanics
Sir Isaac Newton sought to describe the motion of all objects using the concepts of inertia and force, and in doing so he found that they obey certain conservation laws. In 1687, Newton went on to publish his thesis Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. In this work Newton set out three laws of motion that to this day are the way forces are described in physics.
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