Sir Isaac Newton, (born Jan. 4, 1643, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died March 31, 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician. The son of a yeoman, he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at Cambridge University (1661-65), where he discovered the work of René Descartes. His experiments passing sunlight through a prism An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton. Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be - And all was light. It is hard to exaggerate the size of Sir Isaac Newton's fame in the eighteenth century. In this 'Age of Reason', the pioneer of optics, the 'discoverer' of gravity could, as Alexander Pope's witty lines suggest |nas| ryn| jgg| pgw| gux| acd| kao| iii| ard| iyz| kwu| jla| wgj| sbo| vkz| fgt| syg| llq| wux| upq| whk| uqo| yjy| spa| rfk| exj| gdk| kqe| gai| xbd| ehp| yrc| hiu| hgm| pkl| kby| ylf| oyo| uzt| tpf| zaw| ual| jxi| pgn| rcn| eif| llf| afm| lds| vzk|