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You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from previous chapters:
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Woolsthorpe Manor
- Cambridge University
- Trinity College
- Euclid of Alexandria
- Robert Boyle
- René Descartes
- the calculus
- annus mirabilis
- Lucasian Chair
- Stephen Hawking
- reflecting telescope
- Newtonian telescope
- The Royal Society
- Sir Edmond Halley
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(the Principia)
- Gottfried Leibniz
- alchemy
- Westminster Abbey
- mass
- weight
- pound mass
- pound force
- prefixes (Table 4.1)
- International System of Units (SI)
- scalar
- vector
- magnitude
- direction
- position vector
- velocity vector
- speed
- acceleration vector
- centripetal acceleration
- scientific notation
- Newton’s three laws of motion
- inertia
- force
- net force
- action
- reaction
- acceleration due to gravity (“little g“)
- inverse square law
- Newton’s universal law of gravitation
- universal gravitational constant (“big G“)
- Albert Einstein
- Kepler’s laws (derived by Newton)
- center of mass
- the law of ellipses
- the law of equal areas
- the harmonic law
- Sir William Herschel
- Carolyn Herschel
- Sir John Herschel
- John Couch Adams
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Percival Lowell
- Clyde Tombaugh
- error bar
- Émilie du Châtelet
- Voltaire
- determinism
- Francis Bacon
- John Locke
- Baruch Spinoza
- Benjamin Franklin
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Thomas Jefferson
- The Enlightenment
- The Age of Reason
- American Revolution
- French Revolution
- empiricism