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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist, author of the Principia, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1727, a few feet from Darwin.

Person

1642 – 1727

Identifiers
Wikidata Q935

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Appears in15 items

  • Bubbles and Crashes1 item
    • Isaac Newton’s losses1720 O.S.
  • Charles Darwin1 item
    • Burial in Westminster Abbey26 Apr 1882
  • Telescopes: Galileo to JWST2 items
    • Newton builds a reflecting telescope1668 O.S.
    • Newton’s telescope wins him the Royal Society11 Jan 1671/72 O.S.
  • The Enlightenment4 items
    • Newton’s Principia is published · author5 Jul 1687 O.S.
    • Newton dies at Kensington20 Mar 1726/27 O.S.
    • Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics1740
    • Émilie du Châtelet dies with her Newton finished10 Sep 1749
  • The History of Money1 item
    • Newton sets the guinea at 21 shillings · adviser1717 O.S.
  • The Scientific Revolution6 items
    • Isaac Newton is born25 Dec 1642 O.S.
    • Newton’s plague years at WoolsthorpeAug 1665 O.S.
    • Newton’s theory of light and colours8 Feb 1671/72 O.S.
    • “The shoulders of Giants”5 Feb 1675/76 O.S.
    • Halley visits Newton in CambridgeAug 1684 O.S.
    • Newton’s Principia is published · author5 Jul 1687 O.S.

Mentioned in4 items

  • Halley’s Comet Through History2 items
    • Halley watches the comet of 168215 Sep 1682
    • The first predicted return13 Mar 1759
  • The Enlightenment1 item
    • Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters are burned in Paris10 Jun 1734
  • The Scientific Revolution1 item
    • Kepler’s third law1619

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