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  1. Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London) was an English physicist and mathematician who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and ...

  2. Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician famous for his laws of physics. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. Updated: Nov 05, 2020 10:32 AM EST

  3. Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ...

  4. Isaac Newton ‑ Facts, Biography & Laws

    Sir Isaac Newton (1643‑1727) was an English mathematician and physicist who developed influential theories on light, calculus and celestial mechanics. Years of research culminated with the 1687 ...

  5. Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and physicist widely regarded as the single most important figure in the Scientific Revolution for his three laws of motion and universal law of gravity. Newton's laws became a fundamental foundation of physics, while his discovery that white light is made up of a rainbow of colours revolutionised the field of optics.

  6. Biography Sir Isaac Newton

    Biography Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Issac Newton (1643- 1726) was an English mathematician, physicist and scientist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, developing new laws of mechanics, gravity and laws of motion. His work Principia Mathematica ( 1687) laid the framework for the Scientific Revolution of the ...

  7. Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for having invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s (most of a decade before Leibniz did so independently, and ultimately more influentially) and for having formulated the theory of universal gravity — the latter in his Principia, the single most important work in the transformation of early modern natural philosophy into modern physical science.

  8. Isaac Newton (1643

    Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. ... A Biography of Isaac Newton (1990). R S Westfall, The Life of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1993). H Wussing, Newton, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).

  9. Life and works of Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton, (born Jan. 4, 1643, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died March 31, 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician. The son of a yeoman, he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at Cambridge University (1661-65), where he discovered the work of René Descartes. His experiments passing sunlight through a prism ...

  10. Isaac Newton's Life

    I INTRODUCTION. Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669.

  11. Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton FRS PRS (25 December 1643 - 20 March 1726/27) was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus also, he presents his theory of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. [ 5] Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope in ...

  12. Biography of Isaac Newton, Mathematician and Scientist

    Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Isaac Newton, the English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who developed the laws of motion and gravity. Find out how he discovered calculus, published his famous works, and faced disputes with other scientists.

  13. Isaac Newton

    Fellow and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. At age 24, in 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge, where events moved quickly. First he was elected as a fellow of Trinity College. A year later, in 1668, he was awarded an M.A. degree. A year after that, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Isaac Barrow, resigned and Newton was ...

  14. Sir Isaac Newton biography: Inventions, laws and quotes

    Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day to a poor farming family in Woolsthorpe, England, in 1642. At the time of Newton's birth England used the Julian calendar, however, when England adopted the ...

  15. Isaac Newton Facts

    Also Known As. Sir Isaac Newton. Born. January 4, 1643 • England. Died. March 31, 1727 (aged 84) • London • England. Notable Works. "Opticks" • "Principia" • "The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series". Subjects Of Study.

  16. Isaac Newton Biography

    Isaac Newton Biography. References. By Live Science Staff. published 24 March 2016. ... Sir Isaac Newton was born, premature and tiny, in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father, wealthy but ...

  17. Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher, who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential scientists in history. In his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal ...

  18. Isaac Newton Facts & Biography

    Born: Dec 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. Died: March 20, 1727 (at age 84), in Kensington, Middlesex, England, Great Britain. Nationality: English. Famous For: Newton's method for estimating roots of a function. Isaac Newton is one of the most celebrated and recognized mathematicians and physicists in world ...

  19. Biography: Isaac Newton (1642-1727): One of the World's Greatest

    Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England, on December twenty-fifth, sixteen forty-two. He was born early. He was a small baby and very weak. ... The leading English poet of Newton's time, Alexander Pope, honored the scientist with these words: "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, --'Let Newton be!' - and all was light. ...

  20. 7 Fascinating Facts about Sir Isaac Newton

    He never knew his father Isaac, who had died months before he was born. Newton's own chances of survival seemed slim at the beginning. He was a premature and sickly infant that some thought ...

  21. Isaac Newton Biography

    Isaac Newton Physicist Specialty Physics, astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, economics, philosophy Born Dec. 25, 1642 Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England Died Mar. 20, 1727 (at age 84) Kensington, Middlesex, England, Great Britain Nationality English Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England on December 25, 1642. He grew up to be one of the most influential ...

  22. Biography for Kids: Scientist

    Born: January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. Died: March 31, 1727 in London, England. Best known for: Defining the three laws of motion and universal gravitation. Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller. Biography: Isaac Newton is considered one of the most important scientists in history. Even Albert Einstein said that Isaac Newton was the smartest ...

  23. Isaac Newton's occult studies

    Colorized engraving after Enoch Seeman's 1726 portrait of Newton. English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton produced works exploring chronology, and biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse), and alchemy.Some of this could be considered occult.Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the wisdom of ...

  24. Ньютон, Исаак

    Сэр Исаа́к Нью́то́н [K 1] (англ. Isaac Newton, английское произношение: [ˌaɪzək ˈnjuːtən]; 25 декабря 1642 года — 20 марта 1727 года по юлианскому календарю, действовавшему в Англии до 1752 года; или 4 января 1643 года — 31 марта 1727 года по ...