English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
He gave us the laws of motion and universal gravitation, explained planetary orbits and tides, co-invented calculus, built the first reflecting telescope, and proved white light splits into the visible spectrum — all before the theory of relativity reframed the cosmos.
Born in England in 1643, Newton became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge at 26. His *Principia Mathematica*, published in 1687, unified physics under classical mechanics and erased doubt about heliocentricity by using gravity to derive Kepler's laws, account for comets, and predict the Earth's oblate shape. He developed calculus years before Leibniz, collected his work on light and prisms in *Opticks* (1704), and ranged across the binomial theorem, numerical integration, and early linear regression. A devout but unorthodox Christian who rejected the Trinity and refused holy orders…
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In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the method of approximating Series and the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Binomial into such a series.
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the distance from the center.
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
I have studied these things — you have not.
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