Isaac Newton

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born

January 04, 1643 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England, The United Kingdom

died

March 31, 1727

gender

male

website

http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php...

genre

Science, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

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Michael Maier, Henry More

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Sir Isaac Newton, FRS , was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 672 ratings · 22 reviews · 131 distinct works

	The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen (Translator), Anne Whitman (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1687 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Opticks by Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, I. Bernard Cohen 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1952 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Principia: Vol. I: The Motion of Bodies 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Principia: Vol. II: The System of the World 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:
	Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1733 — 38 editions	My rating:
	The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings by Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, H. S. Thayer (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	My rating:
	El sistema del mundo 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1728	My rating:

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“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
― Isaac Newton, Principia: Vol. I: The Motion of Bodies

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“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
― Isaac Newton

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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton

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