Sir Isaac Newton Was One of the Most Brilliant Minds

question 30

Multiple Choice

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most brilliant minds of the early modern era. His supreme achievement was ________.

• A) his collaborative efforts at inventing calculus with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• B) the calculation of the date of the Apocalypse
• C) the discovery of gravity
• D) finally proving that Copernicus' heliocentric universe was the correct model
• E) the synthesis of a system that went beyond describing motion to explaining it

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