Isaac Newton
1642–1727
Mathematician and natural philosopher. Advanced the theory of gravitation in Principia mathematica (1687) and of light in Opticks (1704). Lucasian Professor, Cambridge University, 1669–1701. Master of the Mint, 1699. President of the Royal Society of London, 1703–27. Knighted, 1705. FRS 1672.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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