Who discovered gravity: Isaac Newton by Kneller Godfrey Kneller (Public

Isaac Newton by Kneller Godfrey Kneller (Public Domain) Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and physicist widely regarded as the single most important figure in the Scientific Revolution for his three laws of motion and universal law of gravity. Newton's laws became a fundamental foundation of physics, while his discovery that white light is made up of a rainbow of colours revolutionised the field of optics. Early Life Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642. His family ... Gravity causes all matter to be attracted to other matter, from the subatomic to the cosmic levels. The earliest people could observe gravity at work, noticing objects falling to earth, but they did not begin to theorize systematically about the reasons behind such motion until the era of Classical Greece. The discovery of how gravity works progressed in several stages, beginning with Democritus and proceeding through the work of al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton, the brilliant physicist and mathematician, revolutionized our understanding of the universe with his laws of motion and universal gravitation, forever changing the course of scientific inquiry. Things have been falling out of trees since prehistoric times, and surely Isaac Newton wasn't the first to notice it. He was, though, the first to come up with and record a theory about why apples and other things fall the way they do – the theory that we now know as the law of gravity.