THE HISTORY-CHANGING DISCOVERIES OF ISAAC NEWTON AND ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE

This scientific article analyzes the place of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein in the history of science, their main discoveries and their contribution to the development of physics. The laws of classical mechanics and the theory of universal gravitation developed by Newton formed the basis of the development of scientific thought in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 20th century, Einstein, through the theory of relativity, radically changed the ideas about space and time, paving the way for the development of modern physics. The article provides a comparative analysis of the scientific views of these two great scientists and highlights the impact of their theories on modern technologies, space exploration and energy. Changes in the development of scientific methodology and theoretical physics are also widely considered.