Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician, the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colors into the science of light and laid the foundation for modern physical optics.
In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation.
In mathematics, he was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus. Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy),published in 1687, was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.
Fisrt to explore the connection between celestial mechanics and terrestrial dynamics with his development of a universal theory of gravitation.
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