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On 5 July 1687, Isaac Newton published his great work, the Principia Mathematica. In it he provided, among other things, the most accurate model of the solar system in human history to date. Newton’s account of the laws governing the movement of bodies both on Earth and in the heavens was much more accurate than that given by Aristotle 2,000 years earlier, and was an improvement on Galileo’s theory of 50 years previously.
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Lambie, J. (2014). How Is Human Progress Possible?. In: How to be Critically Open-Minded — A Psychological and Historical Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301055_1
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