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  1. Jun 17, 2024 · Isaac Newton, the brilliant physicist and mathematician, revolutionized our understanding of the universe with his laws of motion and universal gravitation, forever changing the course of scientific inquiry.

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    Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.

  3. Apr 3, 2014 · Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century...

  4. Mar 10, 2015 · Learn about the life and achievements of Isaac Newton, the English scientist who developed the laws of motion and gravity, and invented calculus. Explore his contributions to optics, alchemy, history and the Enlightenment.

  5. Dec 19, 2007 · Isaac Newton (1642–1727) is best known for having invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s (most of a decade before Leibniz did so independently, and ultimately more influentially) and for having formulated the theory of universal gravity — the latter in his Principia, the single most important work in the transformation of ...

  6. Aug 21, 2019 · Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Isaac Newton, the genius who developed the laws of motion and gravity. Discover his early influences, his famous book "Principia", his disputes with other scientists, and his legacy.

  7. Sir Isaac Newton, (born Jan. 4, 1643, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died March 31, 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician. The son of a yeoman, he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at Cambridge University (1661–65), where he discovered the work of René Descartes.