Isaac Newton





Isaac Newton

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

died
March 31, 1727

gender
male

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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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El sistema del mundo
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