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The clarity and simplicity of science was seen as a way to combat the emotional and metaphysical superlatives of both superstitious enthusiasm and the threat of atheism, [173] and at the same time, the second wave of English deists used Newton's discoveries to demonstrate the possibility of a "Natural Religion".
1671: Newton–Raphson method – Joseph Raphson (1690), Isaac Newton (Newton's work was written in 1671, but not published until 1736). 1696: Brachistochrone problem solved by Johann Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. The problem was posed in ...
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).
1672: Sir Isaac Newton: discovers that white light is a mixture of distinct coloured rays (the spectrum). 1673: Christiaan Huygens: first study of oscillating system and design of pendulum clocks; 1675: Leibniz, Newton: infinitesimal calculus. 1675: Anton van Leeuwenhoek: observes microorganisms using a refined simple microscope.
Discovered that electric attraction and repulsion can act across a vacuum and does not depend upon the air as a medium. He also added resin to the then-known list of "electrics". 1678: Christiaan Huygens: Stated his theory to the French Academy of Sciences that light is a wave-like phenomenon. 1687: Sir Isaac Newton
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 ...
1705 – Edmond Halley predicts the return of Halley's comet in 1758, [11] the first use of Newton's laws by someone other than Newton himself. [12] 1728 – Isaac Newton posthumously publishes his cannonball thought experiment. [13] [14] 1742 – Colin Maclaurin studies a self-gravitating uniform liquid drop at equilibrium, the Maclaurin ...
Newton, 1795 (reworked in 1805) painting by William Blake about Isaac Newton Newton , 1995 sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi inspired by Blake's painting Isaac Newton Gargoyle , 1989 hammered copper sheet depiction of Newton on the exterior of Willamette Hall, University of Oregon