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.

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References

• {{Book reference | Author=Bell, E.T. | Title=Men of Mathematics | Publisher=New York: Simon and Schuster | Year=1937 | ID= ISBN 0671464000}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Christianson, Gale | Title=In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton & his times | Publisher=New York: Free Press | Year=1984 | ID= ISBN 0029051908}}
• {{Web reference|URL=http://www.wamu.org/audio/dr/03/06/r2030613.ram|title=interview with James Gleick: "Isaac Newton" (Pantheon)|work=WAMU's The Diane Rehm Show Friday, June 13, 2003 (RealAudio stream)|year=2005|date=March 8}}
• {{Web reference|URL=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Newton.html|title=Sir Isaac Newton|work=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland|year=2005|date=March 8}}
• {{Web reference|URL=http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/|title=The Newton Project|work=Imperial College London|year=2005|date=March 8}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Westfall, Richard S. | Title=Never at Rest | Publisher=Cambridge University Press | Year=1980, 1998 | ID= ISBN 0521274354}}

Further reading

• John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Biography, W W Norton & Co, 1963, paperback, ISBN 039300189X. Keynes had taken a close interest in Newton and owned many of Newton's private papers.
• Isaac Newton, Papers and Letters in Natural Philosophy, edited by I. Bernard Cohen ISBN 0-674-46853-8 Harvard 1958,1978
• Michael H. Hart, The 100, Carol Publishing Group, July 1992, paperback, 576 pages, ISBN 0806513500
• Simmons, J, The giant book of scientists -- The 100 greatest minds of all time, Sydney: The Book Company, (1996)
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727), The Principia: a new Translation, Guide by I. Bernard Cohen ISBN 0-520-08817-4 University of California 1999 Warning: common mistranslations exposed!
• Berlinski, David, Newton's Gift:How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of our World, ISBN 0684843927 (hardback), also in paperback, Simon & Schuster, 2000
• Stephen Hawking, ed. On the Shoulders of Giants, ISBN 0-7624-1348-5 Places selections from Newton's Principia in the context of selected writings by Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Einstein.
• James Gleick, Isaac Newton, Knopf, 2003, hardcover, 288 pages, ISBN 0375422331

External links

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• Sir Isaac Newton Scientist and Mathematician by Lucidcafé
• Isaac Newton Directory
• Newton Research Project
• Rebuttal of Newton as an astrologer
• Newton Reconsidered, an interview with Newton scholar Stephen D. Snobelen at the Galilean Library
• March 5-June 12, 2005 Isaac Newton's personal copy of Principia on display at Huntington Library
• Newton's Reports as Master of the Royal Mint
• Newton's Theorem: Newton's line in a circumscribed quadrilateral. by Antonio Gutierrez from "Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas"
• {{MacTutor Biography|id=Newton}}
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Newton's views on space, time, and motion
• Sir Isaac Newton an article that traces his life and achievements.