Art Resource - AR924705

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Isaac Newton's house, St Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London, c1850.

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Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704.

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Newton's experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757.

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'Sir Isaac Newton', 1774. Artist: William Sharp

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Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700. Artist: Jacobus Houbraken

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Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (1818).Artist: R Page

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Title page of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687.

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Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist, 1836. Artist: William Thomas Fry

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Isaac Newton's prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747.

Isaac Newton's prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747. English physicist and mathematician Newton (1642-1727) first separated white light into the colours of the spectrum by using a prism in 1666. His theories regarding optics and the nature of light, set out in Opticks, led to him building the first reflecting telescope. Newton's discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought. His theories of gravity and his three laws of motion were outlined in his greatest work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, (1687) and he is credited with discovering differential calculus. Knighted by Queen Anne in 1705, Newton is buried in Westminster Abbey, London. From Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy confirm'd by Experiment by Jean Theophilus Desaguliers, a 'popular' explanation of Newton's work. (London, 1747).

Unique Identifier AR924705

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3031px × 3459px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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