Search results
Sir Isaac Newton contributed to many branches of human thought, among which physics and mathematics were the fields in which he contributed substantially. In 1687, the sum total of his discoveries in mechanics were published in the legendary book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy).
Isaac Newton's prism experiment, 1666. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Newton started his research into optics, or the study of sight and the behavior of light, when he was a university student. Using a prism with light in a series of experiments, he studied the spectrum of light projected onto a wall. His analysis pointed to the existence of ...
Nov 10, 2014 · Isaac Newton – who lived from December 25th, 1642, to March 20th, 1727 – was an English scientist, mathematician, and “natural philosopher”. In his time, he played a vital role in the ...
Sir Isaac Newton (født 4. januar 1643, død 31. marts 1727) [ Gammel stil: 25. december 1642 – 20. marts 1727] [1] var en engelsk matematiker, fysiker og astronom, som blandt andet formulerede love om tyngdekraft, massetiltrækning og legemers bevægelse.
Apr 12, 2024 · Newton’s law of gravitation, statement that any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Isaac Newton put forward the law in 1687.
25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 (aged 84) One of the founders of modern physics. Gottfried Kneller. New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic ...
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) English physicist and mathematician who was born into a poor farming family. Luckily for humanity, Newton was not a good farmer, and was sent to Cambridge to study to become a preacher. At Cambridge, Newton studied mathematics, being especially strongly influenced by Euclid, although he was also influenced by Baconian ...
