Isaac Newton





Isaac Newton

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

died
March 31, 1727

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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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The Principia: Mathematical...
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Isaac Newton: Philosophical...
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Observations Upon the Proph...
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El sistema del mundo
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More books by Isaac Newton…
“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

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

“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