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Isaac Newton

Born

in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England

January 04, 1643

Died

March 31, 1727

Genre

Science, Physics, Nonfiction

Influences

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Sir Isaac Newton, FRS , was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus remo ...more

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	The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen (Translator), Andrew Motte (Translation), Anne Whitman (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 4,817 ratings — published 1687 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730 by Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, I. Bernard Cohen 4.26 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1704 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principia: Vol. II: The System of the World 4.11 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1728 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John 3.84 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1733 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principia : Vol. 1 The Motion of Bodies 4.21 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1966 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings by Isaac Newton, Andrew Janiak (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings by Isaac Newton, H.S. Thayer (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1683–1684 4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	وصف تاريخي لتحريف نصين مهمين من الكتاب المقدس: التثليث والتجسد by Isaac Newton, إسحاق نيوتن, هيثم سمير (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة وتعليق) 3.63 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volumes 1-2 by Isaac Newton, François Jacquier, Thomas Leseur 4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
― Isaac Newton

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“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
― Isaac Newton

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