English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

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Sir Isaac Newton. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after Sir G. Kneller, 1702.

Sir Isaac Newton. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1726, after J. Vanderbank, 1725.

Sir Isaac Newton. Line engraving by W. Sharp after Sir G. Kneller, 1702.

Sir Isaac Newton. Etching by W. Hoare, 1734.

The house in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, where Sir Isaac Newton was born; an old woman walks with a stick in the foreground. Engraving, ca. 1810.

Fellows of the Royal Society: Sir John Evans, bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, R.B. Clifton, G.G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Lord Lister, Arthur W. Rucker, Sir J.D. Hooker, Sir William Huggins, Sir W.T. Thiselton Dyer. Photograph by Mayall.

Sir Isaac Newton. Reproduction of lithograph after W. Gandy, 1706.

Sir Isaac Newton. Engraving by J. Swaine after E. Seeman, 1726.

Sir Isaac Newton. Oil painting by Sir James Thornhill.

Sir Isaac Newton. Line engraving, 1748, after Sir G. Kneller, 1702.

Sir Isaac Newton. Stipple engraving by J. Halpin after E. Seeman, 1726.

Sir Isaac Newton. Stipple engraving after Sir G. Kneller, 1702.

Newton and Russia : the early influence, 1698-1796 / [Valentin Boss].

Hegel and Newtonianism / edited by Michael John Petry.

The grammar school in Grantham, Lincolnshire, attended by Isaac Newton. Engraving, ca. 1820.

Franklin and Newton : an inquiry into speculative Newtonian experimental science and Franklin's work in electricity as an example thereof / I. Bernard Cohen.

The Janus faces of genius : the role of alchemy in Newton's thought / Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs.

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.

Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures / By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt.

Philosophical writings / Isaac Newton ; edited by Andrew Janiak.

The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton's papers & letters on natural philosophy and related documents / edited, with a general introduction, by I. Bernard Cohen, assisted by Robert E. Schofield ; with explanatory prefaces by Marie Boas [and others].

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Isaac Newton

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Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures / By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt.

Philosophical writings / Isaac Newton ; edited by Andrew Janiak.

The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton's papers & letters on natural philosophy and related documents / edited, with a general introduction, by I. Bernard Cohen, assisted by Robert E. Schofield ; with explanatory prefaces by Marie Boas [and others].

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.

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Isaac Newton

Images from the collections

Images by Isaac Newton

Images featuring Isaac Newton

Works from the collections

Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures / By Sir Isaac Newton, Knt.

Philosophical writings / Isaac Newton ; edited by Andrew Janiak.

The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton's papers & letters on natural philosophy and related documents / edited, with a general introduction, by I. Bernard Cohen, assisted by Robert E. Schofield ; with explanatory prefaces by Marie Boas [and others].

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.

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