Question

Isaac Newton was able to explain how the forces of gravity worked, but that was not his greatest contribution to modern science. How did Newton’s work change the way we think about the natural world?

Newton discovered a way to connect natural events to the arrangement of stars in the sky.

Newton became the first scientist to claim that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun.

Newton was the first to show that nature is ruled by a set of laws that allow us to predict outcomes.

Newton published a book that disproved most of the Catholic Church's claims about the human body.

Answer 1

Newton was the first to show that nature is ruled by a set of laws that allow us to predict outcomes.

Explanation: With his laws of motion and universal gravitation, Newton showed that the same mathematical laws govern both terrestrial and celestial motions, letting scientists predict and explain natural events quantitatively. The other statements are incorrect: heliocentrism preceded Newton (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo), he did not focus on "arrangement of stars" in the sense given, and he did not publish a book disproving Church claims about the human body.