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To: frankw1900 who wrote (16473)1/15/2002 5:53:32 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
took place well before Newton's Principia.

Many things took place before and after Newton, but, IMO, he is "The Anchor point of History". His definition of the laws of motion, along with the definition of how gravity worked, made possible the explosion of technology that resulted in the Industrial Revolution.

The result of this was that the rest of the world was left in the dust by the West.