Isaac Newton got it right – the law of gravity, inertia, and the Hubble’s ancestor, the reflective telescope. Visit the Science Museum of Virginia this season and discover what the fuss is all about.

• Science Unplugged
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Grand Canyon Adventure
• Swinging on the Tracks
• Really Big Film Festival
• Newton in Space

Who was Isaac Newton?

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) is considered by many to be the most important scientist who ever lived. He was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. His "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica," published in 1687, is said to be the greatest single work in the history of science.

In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism — that the planets orbit the sun — and advancing the scientific revolution.