Isaac Newton
1643–1727
English physicist and mathematician who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) was a scientist, born in Colsterworth and died in Kensington.
- Known as
- Scientist
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 1643, Colsterworth
- Died
- 1727, Kensington
Connections
- Rivals Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Alive at the same time as Isaac Newton
- Pierre de Fermat 1607–1665, mathematician
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695, astronomer
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- John Locke 1632–1704, philosopher
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703, scientist
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- William Penn 1644–1718, religious leader
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
Portrait: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
