![]() ![]() Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants. Quotes Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth. 1.6 Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St.1.3 "Hypothesis explaining the Properties of Light" (1675).1.1 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). ![]() Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus. ![]() His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. ![]() He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. Sir Isaac Newton ( Janu– Maor in Old Style: Decem– March 20, 1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ![]()
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