Isac Newton
The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most importantscientific books ever written, due, independently, to the specific physical laws the work successfully described, and for the style of the work, which assisted in setting standards for scientificpublication down to the present time. Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope[8] and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the manycolours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for thedevelopment of differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function, and contributed to the study ofpower series. Newton's work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals.[9] Newton was also highly religious. He was an unorthodox Christian, and wrote more on Biblical hermeneutics and...
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