Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the invention of the infinitesimal calculus.  Source: Wikipedia

Key  Achievements:

- Discoveries of motion and universal gravitation
- Newtonian reflecting telescope
- Discovery of dispersive prism decomposing white light into colors
- Infinitesimal calculus

More About This Scientist:

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