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.
The Ancient Greeks developed astronomy, which they treated as a branch of mathematics, to a highly sophisticated level. The first geometrical, three-dimensional models to explain the apparent motion of the planets were developed in the 4th century BC by Eudoxus of Cnidus and Callippus of Cyzicus.