Isaac Newton

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alchemist astronomer author human mathematician natural philosopher physicist theologian

Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.

Aliases (2)

Newton ×2
Sir Isaac Newton ×2

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	alchemist → astronomer → author → human → mathematician → natural philosopher → physicist → theologian →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts → Master of Arts →
almaMater	University of Cambridge →
awardReceived	Knighthood →
birthCountry	England →
birthDate	1643-01-04 →
birthDate_oldStyle	1642-12-25 →
birthPlace	Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth →
burialPlace	Westminster Abbey →
citizenship	Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Great Britain →
dateOfBurial	1727-04-04 →
deathCountry	Kingdom of Great Britain →
deathDate	1727-03-31 →
deathPlace	Kensington →
educatedAt	Trinity College, Cambridge →
era	Age of Enlightenment → Scientific Revolution →
familyName	Newton →
fieldOfWork	alchemy → astronomy → classical mechanics → mathematics → natural philosophy → optics → theology →
gender	male →
givenName	Isaac →
honorificPrefix	Sir →
influenced	Albert Einstein → Leonhard Euler → classical physics → modern science →
influencedBy	Galileo Galilei → Johannes Kepler → René Descartes →
knownFor	Newtonian mechanics → Newtonian optics → binomial theorem → calculus → color theory of light → development of classical mechanics → law of universal gravitation → laws of motion → reflecting telescope →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Royal Society →
name	Isaac Newton →
notableWork	Opticks → Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica →
positionHeld	Lucasian Professor of Mathematics → Master of the Royal Mint → President of the Royal Society → Warden of the Royal Mint →
religion	Christianity →

Referenced by (98)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Treatise of Human Nature → Abraham de Moivre → Adam Smith → Albert Einstein → Alfred North Whitehead → American Enlightenment → André-Marie Ampère → David Home → David Hume → Denis Diderot → French Enlightenment → George Berkeley → George Boole → George Gabriel Stokes → Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon → I. Bernard Cohen → Immanuel Kant → James Clerk Maxwell → Jean d’Alembert → John Locke → Joseph Fourier → Joseph Priestley → Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Lettres philosophiques → On the Conservation of Force → Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → Richard Price → Thomas Reid → Voltaire → William Whewell → Émilie du Châtelet →	influencedBy
Archimedes → Astronomia nova → Christiaan Huygens → De revolutionibus orbium coelestium → Francis Bacon → Galileo Galilei → Geometry (Descartes) → Johannes Kepler → Nicolaus Copernicus → Novum Organum → Robert Boyle → Robert Hooke → Two New Sciences →	influenced
Newton Fund → Newton, North Carolina → Newtonian fluid → Newtonian mechanics →	namedAfter
Grantham → Grantham, Lincolnshire, England → Woolsthorpe Manor →	birthplaceOf
Newton's first law of motion → Newton's second law of motion → law of universal gravitation →	formulatedBy
British Enlightenment → Colsterworth ("Sir Isaac Newton") →	associatedWith
Opticks → Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica →	author
Newtonian optics → Physics →	developedBy
Westminster Abbey →	burialPlaceOf
Henry Oldenburg →	correspondedWith
Woolsthorpe Manor →	familyHomeOf
Isaac Newton ("Newton") →	familyName
University of Cambridge →	hasAlumnus
Newtonian absolute space →	hasAuthor
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth →	hasBirthplace
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binomial theorem →	hasHistoricalAttribution
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics →	hasHolder
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Enlightenment science →	hasKeyFigure
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics →	hasNotableHolder
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth →	hasNotableResident
Scientific Revolution →	hasParticipant
Michael H. Hart →	hasWrittenAbout
generalized binomial theorem →	historicalAttribution
Newtonian absolute time →	historicallyAttributedTo
South Sea Bubble →	involvedPerson
Newtonian optics →	keyFigure
Science and the Modern World →	mentionsPhilosopher
John N. Mitchell ("Newton") →	middleName
Isaac Newton →	name
Trinity College, Cambridge →	notableAlumnus
Samuel Smith →	notableAuthorPublished
Royal Society →	notableMember
Warden of the Royal Mint →	notableOfficeHolder
Essays in Biography →	notablePersonProfiled
Copley Medal →	notableRecipient
Woolsthorpe Manor →	notableResident
South Sea Bubble →	notableVictim
Edmund Halley →	patronOf
Warden of the Royal Mint →	positionHeldBy
Samuel Smith →	publishedAuthor
Stuart period →	significantFigure
I. Bernard Cohen →	studies
Caroline of Ansbach →	supported