Isaac Newton
Physicist, mathematician,
astronomer, philosopher
Born: 1643
Died: 1727 |
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In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. |
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Described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. |
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In optics, he built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colors which form the visible spectrum. |
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