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Slideshow: Exhibit Documents Newton's Pull

Isaac Newton is associated with the theory of gravity, but his influence extended well beyond the scientific realm, as a new exhibit shows. Rachel Metz reports from New York.
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Principia) helped make Newton a cultural icon.

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. Toward that end, he interleaved a copy of the first edition in order to note corrections and additions on blank sheets facing the original pages. Twenty-six years would pass before the second edition appeared.
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In the 1680s, Isaac Newton argued that if a projectile were fired at a sufficient velocity, it would enter into an orbit around the earth.
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The orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system, was a popular device to exhibit the relative size and motion of the heavenly bodies.