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Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist

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born: 1642
died: 1727
age at death: 84
known for: mathematician, philosopher

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Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, historian and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics.

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