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.
Heraclides Ponticus (387â312 BCE) proposed that the Earth rotates on its axis. Aristarchus of Samos (310 BCE â c. 230 BCE) identified the central fire with the Sun, around which he had the Earth orbiting. And Copernicus formulated.