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Newton didn't "discover" gravity... he sort of named it, and he figured out the equations by which it works, but it had been "discovered" long ago by the very first animal to fall down.

These equations, along with a lot of other stuff, were set forth in a book called Principia Mathematica. It's not perfectly clear what the exact order was, but it's generally thought that he developed the calculus out of a general need for it in order to understand the workings of gravity, so "calculus" might be a good answer.

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