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Universal Gravitation

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Universal gravitation is the law that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that grows with their masses and shrinks with the square of the distance between them. It unified the physics of falling bodies on earth with the motion of the planets.

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1687 1
Proposed By
Isaac Newton 1
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1. Newton's Law of Gravitation (Britannica)
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Isaac Newton (Britannica)
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