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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) established the laws of motion and universal gravitation, laying the foundation for classical mechanics. His work in optics, including Opticks (1704), and his development of calculus fundamentally transformed scientific inquiry, influencing philosophy through his mechanistic view of the universe and his reflections on space, time, and causality in the General Scholium .

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