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Who was the founder of physics?.


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Nobody is recognized as a founder, though if anybody should be I suppose it would be Isaac Newton. But in his time there really was not a separate discipline called "physics" (also for long afterwards)_ -- it was all lumped in something called natural philosophy which included just about all the modern sciences in some form.

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