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Isaac Newton

Mathematician, physicist & natural philosopher

Born: 4 January 1643
Died: 31 March 1727
Lived in: Woolsthorpe, Cambridge & London

Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher. His work on motion, gravity, optics, and calculus reshaped science, while the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy provided a powerful framework for describing the physical world.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

Newton spent decades studying alchemy as well as physics. Later, as Master of the Royal Mint, he personally pursued counterfeiters and helped reform England’s coinage.

Words by Isaac Newton

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

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“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

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“I frame no hypotheses.”

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