Isaac Newton Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Isaac Newton.

  • 5 Biographies
  • 8 Student Essays
  • 11 Encyclopedia Articles
  • 14 Literature Criticisms
  • ...and more

Study Pack

The Isaac Newton Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (11)

281 words, approx. 1 pages
Sir Isaac Newton formulated a single law of gravitation based on Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. Newton, Isaac British Physicist and Mathematician 1642-1727 Considered one of th... Read more
691 words, approx. 3 pages
Newton, Sir Isaac Sir Isaac Newton developed the system of advanced mathematical calculation that is now called calculus. And through his experiments with light beams (shown here), he also discove... Read more
1,659 words, approx. 6 pages
Newton, Isaac NEWTON, ISAAC (1642–1727), widely regarded as the greatest scientist of all time. Born prematurely (at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England), Newton developed into a physically weak... Read more
85 words, approx. 1 pages
Isaac Newton 1642-1727 English physicist and mathematician who invented differential and integral calculus. He used this tool in developing the concept of universal gravitation and his three laws of m... Read more
595 words, approx. 2 pages
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 English Physicist, Mathematician, and Astronomer Isaac Newton's combination of abilities as an experimentalist, theorist, and pure mathematician have never been surpa... Read more
91 words, approx. 1 pages
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 English mathematician and physicist who, independent of Gottfried Leibniz, invented the calculus. Newton's contribution to physics was perhaps more influential than t... Read more
899 words, approx. 3 pages
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 English Physicist and Mathematician Sir Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. His work represents a major turning point in the history of s... Read more
739 words, approx. 3 pages
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) English physicist In 1687, English physicist Sir Isaac Newton published a law of universal gravitation in his important and profoundly influential work Philosophiae Natur... Read more
2,522 words, approx. 9 pages
Newton, Isaac A central figure in the foundation of modern physics, mathematics, optics, and the scientific method, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was born in the Lincolnshire hamlet of Woolsthor... Read more
1,720 words, approx. 6 pages
Newton, Isaac (1642–1727) Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He entered Cambridge University as a student in 1661. Although much is known of Newton's pr... Read more
3,704 words, approx. 13 pages
Newton, Isaac(1642–1727) Isaac Newton formulated the theory of universal gravity, was an inventor of the calculus, and made major discoveries in optics. He has long been regarded as, perhaps, t... Read more