This also led to another famous method: The scientific method that we’ve had to learn and put to the test at some point. The basis for this is Observation, the reason for why something is what is, do research, conduct a hypothesis, and then test your findings with an experiment. His rules stated in principia say “1) we are to admit no more causes of natural things such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances, (2) the same natural effects must be assigned to the same causes, (3) qualities of bodies are to be esteemed as universal, and (4) propositions deduced from observation of phenomena should be viewed as accurate until other phenomena contradict them (Gianopoulos, Andrea, Phil Miller, and Charles Barnett. Isaac Newton
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I did come across an article that does pose the question: Was Isaac Newtown’s research on gravity totally correct? The journal says “Recent gravitational measurements have deviated from the predictions based on Newton’s law, and now researchers who lowered a gravity meter down a mile-deep hole in Greenland ice sheet say their observations also disagree with theoretical calculations” (Pool, R. "Was Newton Wrong?" Science 241, no. 4867 (1988): 789-90. doi:10.1126/science.241.4867.789). Basically many scientist have thought to have found, through their own experiments, that there may be some holes in Newton theory. Not that its completely wrong just his calculations may not work entirely as he put it. This Greenland experiment is the first time that they have solid evidence that there may be points against it. They wanted to test gravitational changes at various depths, and after carefully testing compared it to other calculations. It was then they found their own test on gravity differed from Newton. While it’s not a done deal on whether on Newton was wrong, there has been a strong debate on its validity. It’s important to note this because while Newton was extremely intelligent, you do have to take into account the time he was in and no scientist work is infallible. Newton paved the way, but there is nothing to say that he can’t
I did come across an article that does pose the question: Was Isaac Newtown’s research on gravity totally correct? The journal says “Recent gravitational measurements have deviated from the predictions based on Newton’s law, and now researchers who lowered a gravity meter down a mile-deep hole in Greenland ice sheet say their observations also disagree with theoretical calculations” (Pool, R. "Was Newton Wrong?" Science 241, no. 4867 (1988): 789-90. doi:10.1126/science.241.4867.789). Basically many scientist have thought to have found, through their own experiments, that there may be some holes in Newton theory. Not that its completely wrong just his calculations may not work entirely as he put it. This Greenland experiment is the first time that they have solid evidence that there may be points against it. They wanted to test gravitational changes at various depths, and after carefully testing compared it to other calculations. It was then they found their own test on gravity differed from Newton. While it’s not a done deal on whether on Newton was wrong, there has been a strong debate on its validity. It’s important to note this because while Newton was extremely intelligent, you do have to take into account the time he was in and no scientist work is infallible. Newton paved the way, but there is nothing to say that he can’t