207,380 profiles ranked

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642-1727) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 84

Isaac Newton is read about 11,800 times a day, in 238 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 18 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 393 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

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.

ScientistsAcademicMathematicsPhysicsPhilosophyAstronomyNews BroadcastingPolitics

A life in dates

1754An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of ScriptureBook published after his death, Dissertation by Isaac Newton1736Method of FluxionsBook published after his death, book by Isaac Newton1730Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of lightBook published after his death, 1730 edition1728The Chronology of Ancient KingdomsBook published after his death, non-fiction work by Isaac Newton1727Died20 March 17271705Knight BachelorAward1703President of the Royal SocietyOffice1703-17271701Member of the 1701-02 ParliamentOffice1701-17021700Master of the MintOffice1700-17271696Warden of the MintOffice1696-17001689Member of the 1689-90 ParliamentOffice1689-16901686“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.”In their words20 June 1686Letter to Edmund Halley (June 20, 1686) quoted in I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith, ed.s, The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2002) p.

1676“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.”In their words15 February 1676Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as

1669Lucasian Professor of MathematicsOffice1669-17021665“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.”In their words(ca. 1716) A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton (1888) Preface

1642Born25 December 1642

Also in Deutsch

Photos 12

Some of the figures added by Isaac Newton in his 1672 and 1681 editions of the Geographia Generalis. These figures appeared in subsequent editions as well.[38]Some of the figures added by Isaac Newton in his 1672 and 1681 editions of the Geographia Generalis. These figures appeared in subsequent editions as well.[38]Newton in 1702 by Godfrey KnellerNewton in 1702 by Godfrey KnellerA replica of the reflecting telescope Newton presented to the Royal Society in 1672 (the first one he made in 1668 was loaned to an instrument maker but there is no further record of what happened to it).[95]A replica of the reflecting telescope Newton presented to the Royal Society in 1672 (the first one he made in 1668 was loaned to an instrument maker but there is no further record of what happened to it).[95]Illustration of a dispersive prism separating white light into the colours of the spectrum, as discovered by NewtonIllustration of a dispersive prism separating white light into the colours of the spectrum, as discovered by NewtonFacsimile of a 1682 letter from Newton to William Briggs, commenting on Briggs' A New Theory of VisionFacsimile of a 1682 letter from Newton to William Briggs, commenting on Briggs' A New Theory of VisionEngraving of Portrait of Newton by John VanderbankEngraving of Portrait of Newton by John VanderbankNewton's own copy of Principia with Newton's hand-written corrections for the second edition, now housed in the Wren Library at Trinity College, CambridgeNewton's own copy of Principia with Newton's hand-written corrections for the second edition, now housed in the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge

In their own words 10

,
Isaac Newton
,
10 statements, newest first

  1. 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.

    Jun 20, 1686, Letter to Edmund Halley (June 20, 1686) quoted in I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith, ed.s, The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2002) p., Own words

  2. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.

    Feb 15, 1676, Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as, Own words

  3. 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.

    1665, (ca. 1716) A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton (1888) Preface, Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Awards

Knight Bachelor1705

Family

Parents

Isaac Newton
Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.

Correct this family

About this person

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, he spent decades on alchemy and biblical chronology that went unpublished. Knighted in 1705, he served as Master of the Royal Mint and president of the Royal Society until his death in 1727.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1642 to 1727 · aged 84

Academics from the United Kingdom 6

John Locke88.2Friedrich Engels87.2Adam Smith86.5Bertrand Russell85.3John Maynard Keynes84.6Alan Turing84.3

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.