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2 days ago · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
3 days ago · Sir Isaac Newton described the motion of all objects using the concepts of inertia and force. In 1687, Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. In this work Newton set out three laws of motion that have dominated the way forces are described in physics to this day.
4 days ago · 01 Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668. 02 From the ages 12 to 17, Isaac Newton stayed with the apothecary William Clarke, which inspired his early interest in chemistry. 03 His main work was the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which he published in 1687. This work consisted of three books.
4 days ago · Isaac Newton showed in 1687 that relationships like Kepler's would apply in the Solar System as a consequence of his own laws of motion and law of universal gravitation. A more precise historical approach is found in Astronomia nova and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
2 days ago · Scientists discovering that photons are both waves and particles was a key part of the development of quantum mechanics. Isaac Newton thought light traveled in particles in part because of how light bounces off surfaces. But Christian Huygens pointed out that light shined through a small hole spread out instead of remaining a spot.
4 days ago · The subject was properly the invention of two mathematicians, the German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the Englishman Isaac Newton. Both men published their researches in the 1680s, Leibniz in 1684 in the recently founded journal Acta Eruditorum and Newton in 1687 in his great treatise, the Principia.
5 days ago · The Isaac Newton Institute is a national and international visitor research institute. It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications over a wide range of science and technology.
