The English mathematician and physicist...
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The English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton was one of the great minds of history. Newton's work profoundly influenced the course of scientific development over the whole of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He invented calculus, the mathematical tool indispensable for the handling of the complexities of the physical universe. He discovered the three laws of motion which remain the basis of ordinary physics. He is perhaps best remembered for the story of the apple's fall which led him to the development of the law of universal gravitation. Newton's contributions to knowledge remained at the center of physical science well into this century, and his theories still suffice to explain the world we live in, except in the realms of subatomic particles and the cosmos.
This almost unrivalled genius, who gave his name to a whole era of science, described himself as "a child playing on the seashore."
--Walker
This almost unrivalled genius, who gave his name to a whole era of science, described himself as "a child playing on the seashore."
--Walker
