Isaac Newton

Table of Contents

Introduction & Top Questions
Formative influences
Influence of the Scientific Revolution
Work during the plague years
Career
- The optics
  - Inaugural lectures at Trinity
  - Controversy
  - Influence of the Hermetic tradition
- The Principia
  - Planetary motion
  - Universal gravitation
- International prominence
  - Warden of the mint
  - Interest in religion and theology
  - Leader of English science
- Final years

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Isaac Newton: Quotes

Vision
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.Isaac Newton