1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist,
astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time and one of the most influential scientists. He was a significant player in the Enlightenment philosophical movement. Classical mechanics was founded by his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which was originally published in 1687. Newton also made significant advances to optics, and he shares credit for establishing infinitesimal calculus with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time and one of the most influential scientists. He was a significant player in the Enlightenment philosophical movement. Classical mechanics was founded by his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which was originally published in 1687. Newton also made significant advances to optics, and he shares credit for establishing infinitesimal calculus with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time and one of the most influential scientists. He was a significant player in the Enlightenment philosophical movement. Classical mechanics was founded by his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which was originally published in 1687. Newton also made significant advances to optics, and he shares credit for establishing infinitesimal calculus with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of all time and one of the most influential scientists. He was a significant player in the Enlightenment philosophical movement. Classical mechanics was founded by his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which was originally published in 1687. Newton also made significant advances to optics, and he shares credit for establishing infinitesimal calculus with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.