Newton made great contributions to optics, celestial mechanics and telescopes. He deserves to be called a giant in science, but when he gets along with people, especially Hooke, Flamsteed, Leibniz and others, he is really a villain.
Newton in his later years recalled: "In the same year (1666), I began to relate gravity to the orbit of the moon, and found out how to estimate the force used by a celestial body to approach a sphere when it rotates in the sphere ... Finally, in the winter between 1676 and 1677, I found a proposition: using centrifugal force and. Before Newton communicated with Hooke in 1679, he deliberately rewrote the time when he discovered gravity here and created the Apple myth, with the obvious purpose of monopolizing the achievements of gravity.
The dispute between Newton and Hooke is not only manifested in the dispute over the invention right of gravity, but also in Hooke's different views on Newton's theory of light particles, because Hooke is on the side of wave theory on the essence of light. 1675, Newton submitted his second paper on light to the Royal Society, which was criticized by Hooke, who said that some viewpoints in the paper were copied from him. This made Newton extremely angry. Although Newton was still angry after mediation by the Royal Society, he wrote a letter to Hook in February 1675. The letter said a sentence as widely circulated as the Apple story: "If I see farther than Descartes, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."