English natural philosopher and mathematician.
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician.
Newton was born at Woolsthorpe manor near Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England on Dec. 25, 1642; developed infinitesimal calculus, three laws of motion, and law of universal gravitation; graduated, Cambridge Univ., 1665; wrote the Principia (1687), which is divided into three books, and Opticks (1704); conducted research in theology and history and began to correspond with John Locke about the interpretation of prophecy and other theological speculations in 1690; wrote the manuscript of Paradoxical questions concerning ye morals and actions of Athanasius and his followers (ca. 1690); knighted, 1705; died in London, England, on Mar. 20, 1727.
Noted English physicist and philosopher with interests also in alchemy, chemistry, materia medica, health, and other fields.