Books by Tracey Hecht. The Ominous Eye: The Nocturnals, Book 2. Written by Tracey Hecht with illustrations by Kate Liebman - Magic, Children's 7 - 11, Fantasy, Fiction, Friendship, Humor, Youth Fiction. When a violent jolt fractures the earth, the Nocturnal Brigade sets out to investigate its source.
Isaac Newton laid the blueprints for his three laws of motion, still recited by physics students, in 1666. Credit: Library of Congress Isaac Netwon is synonymous with apples and gravity.
He informally stated the principles later embodied in Newton's first two laws of motion. Because of his pioneer work in gravitation and motion and in combining mathematical analysis with experimentation, Galileo often is referred to as the founder of modern mechanics and experimental physics.