Question

Drag and drop each accomplishment to the correct person.


came up with the idea of a pendulum clock



developed the law of gravity



suggested that everything could be predicted like a machine



discovered that planets’ orbits are elliptical and not circular



Sir Isaac Newton , Johannes Kepler , Rene Descartes , Galileo Galilei

Answer 1

The following are the correct matches of the accomplishments and the persons who accomplished them:

• Came up with the idea of a pendulum clock - Galileo Galilei (also invented a complex device called telescope)

• Developed the law of gravity - Sir Isaac Newton (also gave three laws of motion)

• Suggested that everything could be predicted like a machine - Rene Descartes (also invented analytical geometry)

• Discovered that planets’ orbits are elliptical and not circular - Johannes Kepler (also proposed the harmonic law)