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Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

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Field of work
Astronomy
Physics
Mathematics
Optics
Mechanics
Natural Science Disciplines
Gravitation
Celestial mechanics
Mathematical analysis
Momentum (Mechanics)

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2 images from works
  • Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.
  • Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.
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Images featuring Isaac Newton

87 images from works
  • 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.
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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.

    Isaac Newton | Date: 1721
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    Philosophical writings / Isaac Newton ; edited by Andrew Janiak.

    Isaac Newton | Date: New York :
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    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 | Date: 1728
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    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].

    Isaac Newton | Date: 1978
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    Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. / Autore J S. Newton, Trin. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos Professore Lucasiano, & Societatis Regalis Sodali.

    Isaac Newton | Date: Anno MDCLXXXVII. [1687]
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Frequent collaborators

Samuel Clarke
Benjamin Martin
I. Bernard Cohen

Related topics

Physics
17th-18th centuries
Science
17th century
United Kingdom
Optics
Scientists
History, 18th Century
Science - History

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