previous   index   next Isaac Newton Michael Fowler, Physics Dept., U.Va. All Sections Newtons Life In 1642, the year Galileo died, Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on Christmas Day. His father had died three months earlier, and baby Isaac, very premature, was also not ex

Branch of Science > Mathematicians Branch of Science > Physicists Nationality > English Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)      English physicist and mathematician who was born into a poor farming family. Luckily for humanity, Newton was not a good farmer, and was sent to Cambridge to study to become a prea

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Sir Isaac Newton December March ) was an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a natural philosopher ) who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution . His book Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Princip

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