- Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton <small><nowiki>[</nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. His treatise "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", published in 1687, described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, … - Sir Isaac Newton
im very old nah im dead!!!im a scientist ryt? clumsy but very intelligent and this kind of brain i hav was tested and proven 4 so many years!!! - Sir Isaac Newton
Let's play crack the sky. - Sir Isaac Newton
Oh so long it has been since I last updated my page! I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, my evil parents took me to the vet and I am now officially nutless. I can't understand it... I mean, I bit them, I peed on things... I thought I was behaving like a very responsible tomcat, but there's just no pleasing them. - Sir Isaac Newton
"don't give God what's left, give him what's right" - Sir Isaac Newton
- Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many secular buildings of note. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–82), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal - William Jones
William Jones (July 30, 1726 - January 6, 1800), was a British clergyman and author. He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford. There a kindred taste for music, as well as a similarity in regard to other points of character, led to his close intimacy with George Horne, … - Richard S. Westfall
Richard S. Westfall (April 22, 1924-August 21, 1996) was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his biography of Isaac Newton and his work on the scientific revolution of the 17th century. - Martin Folkes
Martin Folkes, FRS (October 29, 1690 - 1754), English antiquary, was born in London. He was educated at Saumur University and Clare College, Cambridge, where he so distinguished himself in mathematics that when only twenty-three years of age he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected one of the council in 1716, and in 1723 Sir Isaac Newton, president of the society, appointed him one of the vice-presidents. - John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson was an English theological writer. He was born at Spennithorne, Yorkshire, and served as steward in several families of position, latterly in that of the Duke of Somerset, who ultimately obtained for him the post of riding purveyor to the master of the horse, a sinecure worth about £200 a year. In 1700 he became acquainted with Dr. John Woodward (1665-1728) physician to the duke and author of a work entitled "The Natural History of the Earth", … - John Michael Rysbrack
Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack (born June 27, 1694 in Antwerp; died January 8, 1770 in London) was an eighteenth century Flemish sculptor. His birth-year is sometimes (wrongly) given as 1693 or 1684. Rysbrack studied drawings by Italian masters, before establishing himself in London in 1720. He executed busts and statues of the most prominent men of his day, including the monument to Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, a statue of Marlborough, … - Louis Bertrand Castel
Louis Bertrand Castel (15 November 1688 - 9 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, and entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. He wrote several scientific works, that which attracted most attention at the time being his "Optique des couleurs" (1740), or treatise on the melody of colors. - Richard Glover
Richard Glover (1712 - November 25, 1785), English poet, son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London. He was educated at Cheam in Surrey. While there he wrote in his sixteenth year a poem to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, which was prefixed by Dr Pemberton to his "View of Newton's Philosophy", published in 1728. In 1737 he published an epic poem in praise of liberty, "Leonidas", … - John Freind
John Freind (1675 - 26 July 1728), English physician, younger brother of Robert Freind (1667-1751), headmaster of Westminster School, was born at Croton in Northamptonshire. He made great progress in classical knowledge under Richard Busby at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, under Dean Aldrich, and while still very young, produced, along with Peter Foulkes, an excellent edition of the speeches of Aeschines and Demosthenes on the affair of Ctesiphon (orator). - Leonard Hoar
Leonard Hoar (1630 - November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England and produced works on biblical scholarship. After Charles Chauncy died, he was immediately elected and installed as the president of Harvard on December 10, 1672; which position he held until he resigned on March 15, 1675. - Laura Chapman
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