Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
| Ein sex anaa gender | male  |
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| Ein country of citizenship | Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Name in native language | Isaac Newton |
| Name wey dem give am | Isaac |
| Family name | Newton |
| Ein date of birth | 25 December 1642 |
| Place dem born am | Woolsthorpe Manor |
| Date wey edie | 20 March 1727 |
| Place wey edie | Kensington |
| Place wey dem bury am | Westminster Abbey |
| Ein poppie | Isaac Newton Sr. |
| Mummie | Hannah Ayscough |
| Relative | Catherine Barton |
| Significant person | Isaac Barrow |
| Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign | Latin, English |
| Writing language | English, Latin |
| Ein occupation | mathematician, philosopher |
| Employer | University of Cambridge |
| Educate for | The King's School, Grantham, Trinity College, Trinity College, University of Cambridge |
| Professorship | Lucasian Professor of Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Isaac Barrow, Benjamin Pulleyn, no value |
| Student of | Isaac Barrow, Benjamin Pulleyn |
| Student | Roger Cotes, John Flamsteed, William Whiston |
| Honorific prefix | Sir |
| Residence | England |
| Work location | Cambridge, London |
| Ethnic group | English people |
| Religion anaa worldview | nontrinitarianism |
| Medical condition | stuttering |
| Handedness | left-handedness |
| Notable work | Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Method of Fluxions, Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light |
| Member of | Royal Society |
| Influenced by | René Descartes |
| Award e receive | Knight Bachelor |
| Depicted by | Statue of Sir Isaac Newton (Outside Town Hall), Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Mathematical Scientist |
| Interested in | momentum, celestial mechanics, optics, gravity |
| Copyright status as creator | copyrights on works have expired |
| Stack Exchange tag | https://hsm.stackexchange.com/tags/newton, https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/newton |
Sir Isaac Newton ((/ˈnjuːtən/ ⓘ; 4 January [O.S. 25 December] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) na he be an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, den inventor.[1] Na he be a key figure insyd de Scientific Revolution den de Enlightenment wey follow.[2] Na ein book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), dem first publish insyd 1687, achieve de first great unification insyd physics wey e establish classical mechanics.[3][4] Newton sanso make seminal contributions to optics, den dey share credit plus German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, though na he develop calculus years before Leibniz. Na Newton contribute to den refine de scientific method, wey na dem consider ein work de most influential in bringing forth modern science.
Works
[edit | edit source]Dem publish insyd ein lifetime
[edit | edit source]Dem publish posthumously
[edit | edit source]- De mundi systemate (The System of the World) (1728)[11]
- Optical Lectures (1728)[11]
- The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728)[11]
- Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John (1733)[11]
- Method of Fluxions (1671, published 1736)[12]
- An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture (1754)[11]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Alex, Berezow (4 February 2022). "Who was the smartest person in the world?". Big Think. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ↑ Matthews, Michael R. (2000). Time for Science Education: How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion Can Contribute to Science Literacy. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-306-45880-4.
- ↑ Rynasiewicz, Robert A. (22 August 2011). "Newton's Views on Space, Time, and Motion". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ↑ Klaus Mainzer (2 December 2013). Symmetries of Nature: A Handbook for Philosophy of Nature and Science. Walter de Gruyter. p. 8. ISBN 978-3-11-088693-1.
- ↑ Hald, Anders (2005-02-25). A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 (in English). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-72517-6.
- ↑ "Natures obvious laws & processes in vegetation – Introduction". The Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021. Transcribed and online at Indiana University.
- ↑ Newton, Isaac (2008-01-03). The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 6 (in English). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04585-8.
- ↑ "Museum of London exhibit including facsimile of title page from John Flamsteed's copy of 1687 edition of Newton's Principia". Museumoflondon.org.uk. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ↑ Published anonymously as "Scala graduum Caloris. Calorum Descriptiones & signa." in Philosophical Transactions, 1701, 824 Archived 21 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine–829; ed. Joannes Nichols, Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia, vol. 4 (1782), 403 Archived 17 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine–407. Mark P. Silverman, A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe, Springer, 2002, p. 49. Archived 24 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Newton, Isaac (1704). Opticks or, a Treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures. Sam. Smith. and Benj. Walford. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pickover, Clifford (2008). Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them. Oxford University Press. pp. 117–18. ISBN 978-0-19-979268-9. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ↑ Swetz, Frank J. "Mathematical Treasure: Newton's Method of Fluxions". Convergence. Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Portraits of Sir Isaac Newton at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Works by Isaac Newton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Isaac Newton at the Internet Archive
- Works by Isaac Newton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Isaac Newton at Wikipedia's sister projects
Media from Commons
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Texts from Wikisource
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Digital archives
[edit | edit source]- The Newton Project from University of Oxford
- Newton's papers in the Royal Society archives
- The Newton Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel
- Newton Papers (currently offline) from Cambridge Digital Library
- Bernhardus Varenius, Geographia Generalis, ed. Isaac Newton, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Joann. Hayes, 1681) from the Internet Archive
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