Studies of alchemy also influenced Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.

Isaac Newton's 1728 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended studies a variety of mythological links to Atlantis.

The expeditions confirmed Isaac Newton's belief that the shape of the earth is an ellipsoid flattened at the poles.

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument ( also known as " Newton's bucket ") was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.

Isaac Newton's description was: " A centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or in any way tend, towards a point as to a centre.

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

* 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

The gravitational weakening of light from high-gravity stars was predicted by John Michell in 1783 and Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, using Isaac Newton's concept of light corpuscles ( see: emission theory ) and who predicted that some stars would have a gravity so strong that light would not be able to escape.

These works also influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided one of the foundations for Englishman Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

Some eight decades later, Isaac Newton proved that relationships like Kepler's would apply exactly under certain ideal conditions that are to a good approximation fulfilled in the solar system, as consequences of Newton's own laws of motion and law of universal gravitation.

Classical mechanics originated with Isaac Newton's laws of motion in Principia Mathematica, while quantum mechanics didn't appear until 1900.

In numerical analysis, Newton's method ( also known as the Newton – Raphson method ), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots ( or zeroes ) of a real-valued function.

In the climate of English thought in the period following Isaac Newton's major contributions to physics, there was much discussion of a distinction between primary qualities and secondary qualities.

In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute — in the sense that it existed permanently and independently of whether there were any matter in the space.

Page ii contains quotations by William Whewell and Francis Bacon on the theology of natural laws, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos.

In the late 17th century, Isaac Newton's description of the long-distance force of gravity implied that not all forces in nature result from things coming into contact.

* Three small apple trees, said to have been grown from cuttings taken from the apple trees in Sir Isaac Newton's garden, are planted by the archway containing a statue of Archimedes in his bath by Thompson Dagnall.

However, the theory had difficulties in other matters, and was soon overshadowed by Isaac Newton's corpuscular theory of light.

* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions ( 1671 ), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published ( posthumously ) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations ( anonymously ).

Isaac Newton's analysis of escape velocity.

He enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of Isaac Newton's papers.

It usually appears in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation, and in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

* December 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

This was followed by a memoir on the theory of the tides, to which, conjointly with the memoirs by Euler and Colin Maclaurin, a prize was awarded by the French Academy: these three memoirs contain all that was done on this subject between the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and the investigations of Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Over a century later precession was explained in Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) to be a consequence of gravitation ( Evans 1998, p. 246 ).

The early history of astronautics is theoretical: the fundamental mathematics of space travel was established by Isaac Newton in his 1687 treatise Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

* 1687: Isaac Newton published " Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica " which contains the Newton's laws of motion

He also taught himself Latin in 1790 and French in 1792 so he was able to read mathematical works such as Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.

* Isaac Newton's first edition copy of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica with handwritten notes for the second edition.

At the next meeting of the Society, on April 28, 1686, " Dr Vincent presented to the Society a manuscript treatise entitled Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and dedicated to the Society by Mr Isaac Newton.

Enlightenment could arguably be said to have started with René Descartes in 1637 with his Le Discours de la Méthode (" Discourse on Methods ") or in 1687 when Isaac Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (" Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ").

Experimental physics is considered to have culminated with the publication of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 by Sir Isaac Newton ( 1643 – 1727 ).

Isaac Newton | Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Principia, bearing the imprimatur of Samuel Pepys, then-President of the Royal Society

Amongst the collection are many rare items such as one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas, a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, and the only known extant copy of the little-known but invaluable On the mental inferiority of the people of Southern Africa by Dr David Livingstone.

* Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica ( London, 1687 ).

* Isaac Newton's work: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton publishes his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, establishing the theory of gravitation and laws of motion.

The Copernican revolution was arguably completed by Isaac Newton whose Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) provided a consistent physical explanation which showed that the planets are kept in their orbits by the familiar force of gravity.

Isaac Newton defined inertia as his first law in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which states:

* 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

They were first compiled by Sir Isaac Newton in his work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published on July 5, 1687.

File: GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689. jpg | Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642-1727 ): established three laws of motion and a law of universal gravitation in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ), laid foundations for classical mechanics, invented the reflecting telescope, observed that a prism splits white light into the colors of the visible spectrum, formulated a law of cooling, co-invented infinitesimal calculus

* Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) Lucasian professor of mathematics, Cambridge University ; author, ' Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica '.

* July 5 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ushering in a tidal wave of changes in thought that would significantly accelerate the already ongoing scientific revolution by giving it tools that produced technologically valuable results, which had theretofore been otherwise unobtainable.

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for " Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687.

The Principia is a common name for the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton's three-volume work about his laws of motion and universal gravitation.

The cosmological principle is first clearly asserted in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) of Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton published more general laws of celestial motion in his 1687 book, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

The university also holds Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published 5 July 1687 and Oscar Wilde's manuscript of The Duchess of Padua from 1883.

* Isaac Newton-Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy )

The existence of a free nutation of the Earth was predicted by Isaac Newton in Corollaries 20 to 22 of Proposition 66, Book 1 of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and by Leonhard Euler in 1755 as part of his studies of the dynamics of rotating bodies.

In 1687, Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which provided an explanation for Kepler's laws in terms of universal gravitation and what came to be known as Newton's laws of motion.

Although they published such important, learned works as Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, they also published political pamphlets and advertising bills.

After Isaac Newton published his book, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, maritime navigation was transformed.

These include examples such as Isaac Newton's personally annotated first edition of his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica as well as college notebooks and other papers, and some Islamic manuscripts such as a Quran from Tipoo Sahib's library.

* Andrew Motte publishes The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in London, the first English translation of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( originally published 1687 ; Motte translated the 1726 edition ).