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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another major contribution by Newton was of course his law of gravitation .
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However, the parallel between a linear acceleration and gravitation is conceptually simpler.
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Isaac Newton solved the final problem in the Copernican hypothesis by demonstrating that planetary motion was caused by gravitation .
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It is interesting to contrast gravitation with the other long-range force of nature - electromagnetism.
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It sounds almost like an adumbration of gravitation .
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Newton worried about that when his theory of gravitation required apparently instantaneous interaction between two distant objects.
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One example of a crucial event was the discovery of universal gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton in 1687.
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There was now a universal law of gravitation .