Question

Newton formulated the Universal Law of Gravitation by combining the ideas of which two scientists with his own Laws of Motion?

Options

• Brahe and Cavendish

• Galileo and Kepler

• Kepler and Cavendish

• Galileo and Brahe

Answer 1

Galileo and Kepler

Explanation:

Newton used Galileo's discovery that all objects fall with the same acceleration and Kepler's laws of planetary motion, together with his own laws of motion, to formulate the Universal Law of Gravitation.