Sir Isaac Newton PRS (1642-1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher"). 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 shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus. (Wikipedia)

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