Questions › Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history
What did Isaac Newton's famous book Principia Mathematica show?
- AHow the plague spread in London
- BHow to sail right around the world
- CHow gravity works throughout the universeRight answer
- DHow to translate the Bible into English
Answer: How gravity works throughout the universe
Newton's best-known work explained gravity across the whole universe. He also found that white light contains all the colours of the rainbow.
From chapter 3 of the handbook, "A long and illustrious history", section "The Tudors and Stuarts". Practice question 113 of 651, written in our own words.