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About Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
Everything about Isaac Newton →- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, philosopher, astronomer
- Position held
- Member of the 1689-90 Parliament, Warden of the Mint, Master of the Mint, President of the Royal Society
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom
- Born
- December 25, 1642, January 4, 1643, 1642
- Died
- March 31, 1727, March 20, 1727, 1727