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.

As a result, Alexios and Constantine, Maria's son, were now adoptive brothers and both Isaac and Alexios took an oath that they would safeguard his rights as emperor.

Allmusic claims some have argued that Isaac Hayes and Barry White were playing what would be called disco music as early as 1971.

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.

Isaac Baker Brown ( 1812 – 1873 ), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London in 1865, believed that the " unnatural irritation " of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria, and mania, and would remove it " whenever he had the opportunity of doing so ," according to an obituary.

It was prophesied to the patriarch Abraham that he would have a son and that his name should be called Isaac.

After Isaac had been weaned, Sarah saw Ishmael mocking, and urged her husband to banish Hagar and Ishmael so that Isaac would be Abraham's only heir.

As a reward for his act of faith in one God, he was promised that Isaac, his second son, would inherit the Land of Israel ( then called Canaan ).

As Isaac aged, he became blind and was uncertain when he would die, so he decided to bestow Esau's birthright upon him.

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.

Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.

Isaac surrendered and was confined with silver chains because Richard had promised that he would not place him in irons.

The Krio, led by Isaac Wallace-Johnson, opposed the proposals, the main effect of which would have been to diminish their political power.

* 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.

His account tells of Isaac Newton's absorption in his studies, how he sometimes forgot his food, or his sleep, or the state of his clothes, and how when he took a walk in his garden he would sometimes rush back to his room with some new thought, not even waiting to sit before beginning to write it down.

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

* Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060.

Joan refused to come ashore, fearing she would be captured and held hostage by Isaac Comnenus, who hated all Franks.

His style was most notably exemplified in his proposal for a cenotaph for the English scientist Isaac Newton, which would have taken the form of a sphere high embedded in a circular base topped with cypress trees.

His body was disinterred in 1809 and, after the body was boiled to remove the remaining flesh, as many of the bones as would fit in two saddlebags were relocated by his son Isaac Wayne to the family plot in St. David's Episcopal Church cemetery in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

In 1517, Pope Leo X made a visit to Florence, where he almost certainly would have heard Isaac ’ s music performed.

Isaac Taylor erected the first house in what would become the Gap in 1747.