ISAAC NEWTON His 1687 publication, Philosophiae

naturalis principia mathematica,

1643 - 1727.
usually called the principal, laid the
groundwork for most of classical
mechanics in this work.
Newton built the first practical
reflecting telescope and developed a
theory of color

Newton described universal

gravitation and the three laws of
motion

Newton shares the credit with Gottfried

Leibniz for the development of the
differential and integral calculus. He
also demonstrated the generalized
He was an English physicist, binomial theorem.
mathematician, astronomer, natural
philosopher and an alchemist among
others.