Author:Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

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An English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is regarded by many as the most influential scientist in history.

Isaac Newton

Works

• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, (1687, 1713, 1726)
• Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
• Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John
• New Theory About Light and Colour (1671), Philosophical Transactions, VI, 80
• An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture
• The method of fluxions and infinite series (book) (1736)
• Rules for interpreting the words & language in Scripture. (unpublished)
• w:The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
• w:General Scholium an essay published in 1713 as an appendix to the second edition of the Principia, and again with additions and modifications in the third edition of 1726.

Works about Newton

• Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life by William Stukeley, 1752
• "Newton, Isaac," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Newton, Sir Isaac," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)