Transcription: So, Newton's three laws were the beginning of mechanics? The beginning and most of the rest. Newton almost single-handedly created mechanics. Besides taking time to invent calculus so he could solve the physics equations, he wrote Principia, the greatest scientific book of all time, describing his results, and also invented the reflecting telescope, and showed how white light could be spread out into the colors of the rainbow with a prism. I understand he wasn't especially well liked. No, by all accounts he was fairly prideful and obstreperous. Want to hear some more? Just pull the cord.
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