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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
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“Admit no more causes of natural things than are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances”
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“Propositions collected from observation of phenomena should be viewed as accurate or very nearly true until contradicted by other phenomena”
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“Newton's line in a circumscribed quadrilateral”
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“To the same natural effect, assign the same causes”
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“The greatest scientist who ever lived was Isaac Newton...[about Principia Mathematica] By all odds it”
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“s concluding remarks on Leibniz. Thus began the bitter controversy which marred the lives of both men until Leibniz”
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“to distinctly advance every branch of mathematics then studied”
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Snopes rated the claim “An audio recording authentically captured U.S. President Donald Trump comparing Tesla CEO Elon Musk to "Isaac Neutron" rather than English physicist Isaac Newton.” Fake.
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Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,013 times.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The apple tree where Isaac Newton came up with the laws of gravity is still alive and flourishing in England in the orchard of Woolsthorpe Manor.” True.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,199 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,009 times.
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,182 times.
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,706 times.
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Recognising the global significance of the documents
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Published “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,635 times.
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With his improvements lasting until the 1770s, thereby increasing the accuracy of British coinage
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Published “Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,819 times.
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“Judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides”
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A dual survey of the public and members of Britain's Royal Society asked two questions: who made the bigger overall contributions to science and who made the bigger positive contributions to humankind, with the candidate
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Was voted as the greatest Briton in a poll conducted by BBC World, with Winston Churchill second
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The science editor and author Clifford A
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Snobelen wrote, that "Isaac Newton was a heretic
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Time magazine named Newton the Person of the Century for the 17th century
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An opinion poll of 100 of the day's leading physicists voted Einstein the "greatest physicist ever," with Newton the runner-up, while a parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists ranked Newton as the greatest
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A descendant offered the papers for sale at Sotheby's
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The astronomer James Jeans stated that he "was certainly the greatest man of science, and perhaps the greatest intellect, the human race has seen"
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Studied at University of Cambridge.
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After spending sixteen years cataloguing Newton's papers, Cambridge University kept a small number and returned the rest to the Earl of Portsmouth
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In the centre of Grantham where he went to school, prominently standing in front of Grantham Guildhall
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“History of the Royal Society”
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Died 1727-03-31.
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“Opis: Odpowiedź na pytanie czy dużo czasu zajęło mu sformułowanie odkrytych przez niego praw.”
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“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.”
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“Opis: gdy jedyny raz poprosił o głos w Izbie Lordów.”
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“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”
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“Opis: epitafium na grobie Izaaka Newtona w opactwie westminsterskim.”
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“Opis: parafraza zaczerpnięta z Lukana (vol. II, 10): karły umieszczone na barkach gigantów widzą więcej niż sami giganci. Słowa te są przytaczane dzisiaj jako dowód szacunku, jaki miał Newton do osiągnięć swych poprzedników; w rzeczywistości była to złośliwa uwaga poczyniona pod adresem Hooke’a, jako że ten był człowiekiem niskiego wzrostu.”
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“Variant: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
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“Co my wiemy, to tylko kropelka. Czego nie wiemy, to cały ocean.”
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“Każdy obiekt we Wszechświecie przyciąga inny obiekt wzdłuż linii przechodzącej przez ich środki, proporcjonalnie do ich mas i odwrotnie proporcjonalnie do kwadratu odległości między nimi.”
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“Sądzę, że jest możliwe, iż Bóg na początku stworzył materię w postaci trwałych, nasyconych, twardych, nieprzenikliwych ruchomych cząstek, nadając im takie rozmiary, kształty i inne właściwości oraz proporcje w stosunku do przestrzeni, jakich wymagały cele, dla których je stworzył.”
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1705).
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1703–1727).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1701-02 Parliament (1701–1702).
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Career landmark: Master of the Mint (1700–1727).
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Career landmark: Warden of the Mint (1696–1700).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1689-90 Parliament (1689–1690).
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Career landmark: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1669–1702).
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Studied at Trinity College, Master of Arts (1667–1668).
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Studied at Trinity College, Bachelor of Arts (1661–1665).
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Studied at The King's School, Grantham (1655–1659).
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Born 1642-12-25.
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