Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (25 December 1642 (OS) – 20 March 1727 (OS) / 4 January, 1643 (NS) – 31 March 1727 (NS) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemist. Recognised as a genius of the highest order, he is widely regarded as the most influential scientist in history. He wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (published 5 July 16871), where he described universal gravitation and, via his laws of motion, laid the groundwork for classical mechanics. Newton also shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for the development of differential calculus. While they both discovered calculus nearly contemporaneously, their work was not a collaboration.

Fictional appearances

Isaac Newton is the hero of Rubrique-à-brac, a French comic strip by Marcel Gotlieb. An ongoing gag involves various depictions of the legend that he discovered the law of gravity due to an apple falling on his head.

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Rubrique-à-brac - French - Marcel Gotlieb

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Newton also figures as a major character in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

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Neal Stephenson - Baroque Cycle

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Newton appeared, along with Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein in a poker game in an episode of . Newton was notable in that scene for being the only scientist without a sense of humour. He also took offence at the notion that the story of the apple was fictitious. He also appeared in an episode of where it is claimed that a member of the Q Continuum shook the tree he was sitting under, causing the apple to fall.

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Stephen Hawking - Albert Einstein - Fictitious

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It is hinted that Isaac Newton is the true identity of Emperor Dornkirk in Vision of Escaflowne, although there are only hints and no actual confirmation.

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Newton is a major character in Philip Kerr's novel, Dark Matter.

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