Isaac Newton | Biography, Discoveries, Laws, Facts & Death
Isaac Newton (Born on December 25, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire; and died on March 20, 1727), was a physicist, theologian, inventor, alchemist, and English mathematician. He is the author of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, better known as the Principia, where he describes the law of universal gravitation and established the foundations of classical mechanics through the laws that bear his name.His other scientific discoveries include works on the nature of light and optics (which are mainly presented in his work Opticks), and in mathematics, the development of infinitesimal calculus. Newton shares with Gottfried Leibniz the credit for the development of integral and differential calculus, which he used to formulate his laws of physics and astronomy.He also co...