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Newton, Isaac

Born: 25 December 1642, Woolsthorp (7 miles south of Grantham), Lincolnshire, England
Died: 20 March 1727, Kensington (now part of London), England

Note: The dates are that of the Julian calendar. In the Gregorian (i.e. modern) calendar these are 4 January 1643 and 31 March 1727, respectively.

Physicist, mathematician, astronomer

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Newtonia
  Bibliography, WWW links, portrait, Newtonian places, etc.
• The Sir Isaac Newton Home Page
  Biography, bibliography, manuscripts, links etc.
• Biographical data and references
• Biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Biography, Links and Principia, Book Two, Lemma II
• Biography
• Biography
• Short biography and references (infoplease.com)
• Short biography
• Short biography (in German)
• Short biography (in German)
• Biographical data
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Very short biography
• Very short biography and links
• Britannica Online entries
• Isaac Newton and Astrology, by Robert H. van Gent
• Newton and the Moon, by Nicholas Kollerstrom
  Offers historical material relating to theories of the Moon's motion, especially those of Newton and those surrounding him.
• Overcomimg Greatness. The Decline and Recovery of British Mathematics in the Post-Newton Era, by Robert Bruen
  About the negative effect of Newton on British mathematics
• Sir Isaac Newton: His first 26 years, optics, and alchemy
• Isaac Newton: the first physicist
• Opticks, London, 1704
  CD-ROM edition
• Bibliography
• Bibliography
• Bibliography
• Bibliography (Library of Congress entries)
• References (Library of Congress entries)
• References (ADS entries)

Search also in:

• Biographical Index to Sky and Telescope by Kevin Krisciunas (Or see here.)
• Planetary Nomenclature Alphabetic Index
• World Biographical Index
  Search for "newton, sir isaac"

Archival sources

• Papers of Sir Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Library

Places

• Isaac Newton Room at Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
• Newtonian Places in London
• Newtonian places at Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK
• Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham
  Where Newton has been born and grown up
• Woolsthorpe Manor
• Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
  Where Newton wrote Principia
• Newton Institute Artefacts, Cambridge, UK

Namings

• Newton diagrams (Library of Congress entries)
• Newton-Raphson method (Library of Congress entries)
• Newtonian fluids (Library of Congress entries)
• Newtonian telescopes (Library of Congress entries)
• The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
• Isaac Newton School, Hull, UK (See also here.)
• Find more schools named after Newton with Alta Vista
• Tagungsraum Isaac Newton, Software Center Marburg, Germany (in German)

Further links

• Links to WWW sources
• Find more about Newton with Alta Vista
• Find more about Newton and astronomy with Alta Vista

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 6 Feb 1998. Latest update: 18 Sep 2003