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  2. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [27] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.

  3. Early life of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...

  4. List of physicists - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements. ... Sir Isaac Newton – England (1642–1727) Edward P. Ney – United States (1920–1996)

  5. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 Scientist 3 Jesus: 4 BC–33 AD Spiritual leader 4 Gautama Buddha: 563–483 BC Spiritual leader 5 Confucius: 551–479 BC Philosopher 6 Paul the Apostle: 5–67 AD Christian apostle 7 Cai Lun: 50–121 AD Inventor of paper 8 Johannes Gutenberg: c. 1400–1468 Inventor of the printing press 9 Christopher Columbus: 1451 ...

  6. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The era of the Scientific Renaissance focused to some degree on recovering the knowledge of the ancients and is considered to have culminated in Isaac Newton's 1687 publication Principia which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, [9] thereby completing the synthesis of a new cosmology.

  7. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Cambridge University physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was a fellow of the Royal Society of England, who created a single system for describing the workings of the universe.

  8. Isaac Newton in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history.His Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is considered to be one of the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.

  9. List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1666–1675: Theories on optics proposed by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726/7); Newton published Opticks in 1704. 1687: Law of universal gravitation formulated in the Principia by Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726/7). 1687: Newton's laws of motion formulated in the Principia. 1800: Infrared radiation discovered by Sir William Herschel (1738–1822).