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  • '''Sir Isaac Newton''' (1642–1727) is one of the giants in the history of mathematics, physic ...lsthorpe, Lincolnshire; his father died before his birth.<ref> His father, Isaac Newton (1606–1642), was illiterate but left extensive lands as well as goods wor
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  • * Newton, Isaac. ''The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1: The Optical Lectures, 1670-1672.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1984. 627 p * Newton, Isaac. ''The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton,'' 8 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1967–81).
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  • ....bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml |title=BBC History, Isaac Newton |accessdate=2008-05-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |mon ...ewton/;jsessionid=20468A6B1FFF51956ED448C1F310581C |title=The Chymistry of Isaac Newton |accessdate=2008-05-12 |author=William R.Newton |publisher=Indiana Universi
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  • A parody of Christmas invented by Richard Stallman, held in honour of Isaac Newton's birthday.
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  • ...'s parody of [[Christmas]]. He describes it as follows: ''On December 25, Isaac Newton's birthday, we celebrate the existence of comprehensible physical laws. Rem [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s birthday is 4th January 1643 according to the modern [[Year#Greg
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  • ....bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml |title=BBC History, Isaac Newton |accessdate=2008-05-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |mon ...ewton/;jsessionid=20468A6B1FFF51956ED448C1F310581C |title=The Chymistry of Isaac Newton |accessdate=2008-05-12 |author=William R.Newton |publisher=Indiana Universi
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  • * Newton, Isaac. ''The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1: The Optical Lectures, 1670-1672.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1984. 627 p * Newton, Isaac. ''The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton,'' 8 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1967–81).
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  • SI derived unit of force, named after Isaac Newton, equal to the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram
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  • * In [[mathematics]], several methods of calculation, but usually refers to [[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]] [[Infinitesimal calculus]]:
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  • ...s in 1664, beginning on 14 March. On 29 October 1669 he was succeeded by [[Isaac Newton]], who held the chair until 1701, although he was appointed Warden of the M <tr><td>Sir [[Isaac Newton]] <td>1642-1727<td width="5%"> <td>1669-1701<td width="5%"><td>Mathe
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  • The newton is named for [[Isaac Newton]] (1643 - 1727), who developed the laws of motion in classical mechanics.
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  • There is also '''Newton's binomial theorem''', proved by [[Isaac Newton]], that goes beyond elementary algebra into mathematical analysis, which ex
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  • ...y of light as opposed to the corpuscular theory that had been posited by [[Isaac Newton|Sir Issac Newton]]. Newton's theory predicted that light would travel faste
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  • ...utions of the heavenly spheres, 1543) and ending with the publication of [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (The mathematical
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  • * [[Isaac Newton]]'s law of universal gravitation states the the gravitational attraction be
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  • ...the donation of books which formed the basis of the Society's library. [[Isaac Newton]] soon became a prominent member.
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  • Prominent scientists it has published include [[William Harvey]] and [[Isaac Newton]], as well as [[Stephen Hawking]] and [[Roger Penrose]].
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  • * [[Isaac Newton]], founder of [[classical mechanics]]
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  • ...has had a distinguished record in [[mathematics]] since the time of Sir [[Isaac Newton]].
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  • One of the fundamental laws of physics is [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s second law. This states that the acceleration of the center of
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  • ...lected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of London]], and came to know [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. *‘’An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries’’ By Colin MacLaurin (1748) [http://books.
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  • '''Sir Isaac Newton''' (1642–1727) is one of the giants in the history of mathematics, physic ...lsthorpe, Lincolnshire; his father died before his birth.<ref> His father, Isaac Newton (1606–1642), was illiterate but left extensive lands as well as goods wor
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  • ...thod as purely algebraic and fails to notice the connection with calculus. Isaac Newton probably derived his method from a similar but less precise method by [[Fra
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  • ...tational ellipsoid with a flattening ''f'' given by 1/230.<ref name=Newton>Isaac Newton: ''Principia'' Book III Proposition XIX Problem III, p. 407 in Andrew Motte
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  • ...banknotes include [[William Shakespeare]], Sir [[Christopher Wren]], Sir [[Isaac Newton]], the 1st Duke of Wellington, [[George Stephenson]], [[Michael Faraday]] a * Sir [[Isaac Newton]]
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  • [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s second law states that the momentum of a particle changes in tim
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  • ...e 17th century with the competing theories of [[Christiaan Huygens]] and [[Isaac Newton]]. Huygen's observations led him to a wave theory of light while Newton's o
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  • ...(also known as light quanta) through space. This view is reminiscent of [[Isaac Newton]]'s view, who saw light as a stream of corpuscles. This view was rejected i
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  • ...s always attractive. In [[classical mechanics]], gravitation is given by [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s gravitational force, which is an [[inverse-square law]]. In [[g ...-two year old student:<ref>R. S. Westfall, ''Never at Reʃt, A biography of Isaac Newton'', Cambridge University Press (1980), p. 143</ref>
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  • ...pedition to present-day Ecuador that had the aim to test a hypothesis of [[Isaac Newton]]. Newton had posited that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but bulges a
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  • ([[Nicholas Mercator]], 1668); and many others ([[Isaac Barrow]], [[Isaac Newton]], Gottfried Leibniz, ...) Nonlinear functions, desperately needed for the
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  • ...observation, and [[Isaac Newton]] on the [[History of scientific method#Isaac Newton|rules of reasoning]].
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  • ...ck for over a mile before it started to weaken. [[Daniel Bernoulli]] and [[Isaac Newton]] had described how waves travel, but this one didn't follow any of the rul
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  • ...evolution or paradigm shift happens. As examples, he used the shift from [[Isaac Newton|Newtonian]] to [[Albert Einstein|Einsteinian]] physics, as well as the shif
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  • ...ww.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1701-25-mint-reports/report-1717-09-25.html Isaac Newton: Statement to the House of Lords, September 25 1717]</ref>. That mistaken e
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  • ...y, for example, [[Aristotle]], [[Ptolemy]], [[Copernicus]], [[Galileo]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Quantum physics|quantum physicists]] and contemporary (early 21st cent
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  • ...al attraction]] by [[Christopher Wren]], [[Robert Hooke]], and above all [[Isaac Newton]]. In 1689 Huygens visited England and the Royal Society where he met [[Isaac Newton]]. It is known that the two great scientists traveled together by stagecoa
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  • ...sC&pg=PA12 |title=Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica |author=Sir Isaac Newton |edition=Andrew Motte translation of 1729, revised by Florian Cajori |publi ...was nothing external or sensible with which the globes could be compared.|Isaac Newton, ''Principia'': Book 1: Definitions – Scholium; 1729 Andrew Motte transla
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  • ...he labels 1 and 2 are interchanged, or in other words, one would expect [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s third law <math>\scriptstyle \mathbf{F}_{12} = -\mathbf{F}_{21}
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  • ...ereafter. Its best known formulation is Newtonian mechanics, named after [[Isaac Newton]], but among scientists the formulations of [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Lagrang ...&q&f=false |title=Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica |author=Sir Isaac Newton |edition=Andrew Motte translation of 1729, revised by Florian Cajori |publi
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  • When [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] founded classical mechanics in his 1687 magnum opus ''Principia'',
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  • ...attacked and especially the concept of "fixed infinitesimal" set forth by Isaac Newton in the [[Principia]] and in an appendix to the [[Opticks]]. Since the conce
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  • ...edited with the discovery of [[calculus]], and was a contemporary of Sir [[Isaac Newton]]. The brother of James Gregory the Elder was the inventor David Gregory (1
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  • ...Rutherford is buried at Westminster Abbey just west of [[Isaac Newton|Sir Isaac Newton]]'s tomb and next to Lord Kelvin’s.
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  • === Isaac Newton === ...develop, they were set to rest by the success of a Royal Society fellow, [[Isaac Newton]]. In his ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia]]'' Ne
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  • ...at atoms moved in a void with nothing between them. [[Robert Boyle]] and [[Isaac Newton]] were later to continue to develop the concept.<ref>[http://www.tmth.edu.g
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  • ...has been somewhat enclosed by trees planted by the original owners, I.N. (Isaac Newton) and Bernardine Hagen, who owned the property until its sale in 1986 for $6
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  • * '''Newton''' - [[Isaac Newton]]
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  • ...''Ethics'' along the lines of the ''Elements'' and so did the physicist [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] when he composed his opus magnum ''Principia''.
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  • ...nt of calculus generally follows the historical development pioneered by [[Isaac Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz]]. The development of introductory Analysis follo
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  • ...number]]s and to create the [[Sierpinski triangle]]. After studying it, [[Isaac Newton]] expanded the triangle and found new methods to extract the [[square root] [[Isaac Newton]] studied the triangle's properties and discovered two remarkable generaliz
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  • ...g areas or volumes (e.g. <math>\pi r^2</math> for the area of a circle), [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s [[inverse-square law]] of gravity, and so on. However, the term
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  • ...t least for over a century) by their contemporary, the scientific giant [[Isaac Newton]] (1642&ndash;1727). Newton started his career as a strict adherent of ethe ...nets in closed orbits.<ref>R. S. Westfall, ''Never at Reʃt; A Biography of Isaac Newton'', Cambridge University Press, (1980), p. 271</ref>
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  • #Sir Isaac Newton defines water, when pure, to be a very fluid salt, volatile, and void of al
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  • ...ternal torque occurs in that case. In order to show this, we recall that [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s third law (action = &minus;reaction) holds for central-symmetric
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  • ...n drive]]," a device that supposedly produced thrust in violation of [[Sir Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s [[third law]], and the "[[Hieronymus machine]]," which could sup
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  • ...ille|Corneille]]<td>[[Francis Bacon|Bacon]]<td>[[William the Silent]]<td>[[Isaac Newton|Newton]]
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  • ...on, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories
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  • | [[Isaac Newton]], [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]], [[Thomas Hobbes|Hobbes]], [[Antoine Arnauld| Descartes's theory provided the basis for the calculus of [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], by applying [[infinitesimal cal
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  • ...oversy about the theory of light. [[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]] had rejected [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s corpuscular theory and had replaced it by a wave theory. Biot a
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  • ...(2004)] give Cœlestium.</ref> in 1543 and closes with the appearance of [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s ''Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' [The mathematic ...hat keeps the planets in orbit? Many of these questions find answers in [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''Principia'' (1687) that describes an infinite cosmos in which planets
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  • ...were other secondary or tertiary concerns. As presented by [[Voltaire]], [[Isaac Newton]] was the great hero for his demonstration that rational thought could expl
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  • where [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]'s second law ''F'' = ''m'' d''v''/d''t'' is used and it is assumed
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  • 1642 [[Isaac Newton]] (1642-1727) Central figure of [[The Enlightenment]]. Founder of different
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  • [[Isaac Newton]]'s [[Gravitation#Newton's law of universal gravitation|law of gravitation]
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