He expressed for the first time accurate laws of motion, the origins of colours, the existence and effects of gravity, and the fact that the same physical laws hold true throughout the universe.

ECONOMIST: Isaac Newton

These revolutions can be triggered by technological breakthroughs, such as the construction of the first telescope (which overthrew the Aristotelian idea that heavenly bodies are perfect and unchanging) and by conceptual breakthroughs such as the invention of calculus (which allowed the laws of motion to be formulated).

ECONOMIST: The scientific method

Kepler is famous for discovering the three laws of planetary motion, laws which Isaac Newton later re-derived with his universal theory of gravitation.

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In the early 17th century, Johannes Kepler worked out the laws of planetary motion as a result of years of analysis of the observations made by Tycho Brahe.

ECONOMIST: Mining the digital skies

The law, of course, is not a real law, such as Newton's laws of gravity and motion.

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While the SEC is still working on implementation of these laws, the wheels are finally in motion.

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It has been obvious for centuries that if human beings are made entirely of physical stuff, and all physical stuff simply follows the laws of physics, then there is no room in human action for any causal power other than the motion of matter.

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