Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

During the 1670s corpuscularianism was used by Isaac Newton in his development of the corpuscular theory of light.

It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery ( which he did not name or formally describe ).

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.

Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to develop a theory of air resistance, making him one of the first aerodynamicists.

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In 1704, Isaac Newton famously outlined his atomic bonding theory, in " Query 31 " of his Opticks, whereby atoms attach to each other by some " force ".

From the 16th century, researchers including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton tried to establish theories of the experimentally observed chemical transformations.

Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The development of the Cartesian coordinate system would play an intrinsic role in the development of the calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

He covers over 40 scientists, with special attention paid to Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.

The basic principle of dimensional analysis was known to Isaac Newton ( 1686 ) who referred to it as the " Great Principle of Similitude ".

Special mention, however, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir Isaac Newton.

In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.

Isaac Newton studied these effects and attributed them to inflexion of light rays.

Young's experiment, performed in the early 1800s, played a vital part in the acceptance of the wave theory of light, vanquishing the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton, which had been the accepted model of light propagation in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Sir Isaac Newton contributed his only published work on chemistry to the second volume of 1710.

Humbolt drew inspiration from Isaac Newton as he developed a form of " terrestrial physics.

To account for slowing due to friction, Leibniz theorized that thermal energy consisted of the random motion of the constituent parts of matter, a view shared by Isaac Newton, although it would be more than a century until this was generally accepted.

In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by Isaac Newton in the " General Scholium " that concludes his Principia.

This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval.

It was later included in the King James Bible, something Isaac Newton commented on in An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.

Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s.

The principles of integration were formulated independently by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the late 17th century.

Stephenson discusses the legacy of the rivalry between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, November 2, 2010.

" Alchemy was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and Gottfried Leibniz.

At its heart, Gottfried Leibniz, the German philosopher-mathematician, and Isaac Newton, the English physicist-mathematician, set out two opposing theories of what space is.

Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

In the 17th century, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently discovered the idea that integration was roughly the inverse operation of differentiation, the latter being a way of measuring how quickly a function changed at any given point on the graph.

" ( e. g., " If Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz had cooperated with each other, what would mathematics look like today?

The modern development of calculus is usually credited to Isaac Newton ( 1643 – 1727 ) and Gottfried Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ), who provided independent and unified approaches to differentiation and derivatives.

Five mathematicians responded with solutions: Isaac Newton, Jakob Bernoulli ( Johann's brother ), Gottfried Leibniz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Guillaume de l ' Hôpital.

Taylor was elected a fellow of the Royal Society early in 1712, and in the same year sat on the committee for adjudicating the claims of Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and acted as secretary to the society from 13 January 1714 to 21 October 1718.

Discovery of this rule is credited to Gottfried Leibniz ( however, Child ( 2008 ) argues that it is due to Isaac Barrow ), who demonstrated it using differentials.

In 1848, after political upheaval and bad harvests, David Oppenheimer immigrated to New Orleans with his four brothers: Charles ( Carl ), Meyer, Isaac and Godfrey ( Gottfried ).

She wants Daniel to return to England and attempt to repair the feud between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.

* Daniel Waterhouse – son of prominent Puritan Drake Waterhouse, roommate of Isaac Newton, friend of Gottfried Leibniz, and prominent member of the Royal Society.

* John Keill, writing in the journal of the Royal Society and with Isaac Newton's presumed blessing, accuses Gottfried Leibniz of having plagiarized Newton's calculus, formally starting the Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy.

A contemporary of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton, Seki's work was independent.

The great debate between defining notions of space and time as real objects themselves ( absolute ), or whether they are merely orderings upon actual objects ( relational ), began between physicists Isaac Newton ( via his spokesman, Samuel Clarke ) and Gottfried Leibniz in the papers of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.

The relational point of view was advocated by in physics by Gottfried von Leibniz, Ernst Mach ( in his Mach's principle ), and it was rejected by Isaac Newton in his successful description of classical physics.

Ideas leading up to the notions of function, derivative, and integral were developed throughout the 17th century, but the decisive step was made by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.

Neal Stephenson ( center ) makes use of historical figures as characters in The Baroque Cycle, such as ( counterclockwise from upper left ) Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Sophia of Hanover and William III of England | William of Orange

Characters include Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and sundry other Europeans of note during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The ideas of Isaac Newton, Ernst Mach, and Gottfried Leibniz on this thought experiment are discussed in detail.