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Isaac Newton, 400th anniversary of his death

Sir Isaac Newton  25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (described in his own day as a “natural philosopher“) who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”), first published in 1687, laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus

Portrait of man in black with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair, a large sharp nose, and a distracted gaze