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Sir Isaac Newton |

1689 portrait of Isaac Newton (age 46)

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Born | 25 December 1642

Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth

Lincolnshire, England |

Died | 20 March 1727 (aged 84)

Kensington, Middlesex, England |

Nationality | English |

Fields | Physics, mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, alchemy, Christian theology |

Institutions | University of Cambridge

Royal Society

Royal Mint |

Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |

Known for | Newtonian mechanics

Universal gravitation

Infinitesimal calculus

Optics

Binomial series

Newton's method

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica |

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Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton describeduniversal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. 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, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing theScientific Revolution. The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written.

Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope[8] and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied thespeed of sound.

In mathematics,...