Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton’s work represents one of the greatest contributions to science ever made by an individual. Most notably, Newton derived the law of universal gravitation, invented the branch of mathematics called calculus, and performed experiments investigating the nature of light and colour.

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Newton, Sir Isaac; Scientific Revolution; Physics; Calculus; Celestial Mechanics; Mathematics; Enlightenment, Age of

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