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Isaac Newton, as shown in the picture on the left, was an english physicist and mathematician who discovered the concept of gravity and the three laws of motion in the 1600s. He started differential and integral calculas, demonstrated that light is composed of colors and invented a reflecting telescope. He also discovered the general binomial theory in 1665.

The image on the right depicts Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus was an astronomer in the sixteenth century. He was the first astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the universe. Before him, astronomers believed that the earth was at the center of the universe. However, he exclaimed that the sun was the center of the universe.