Newton
/ˈnjuːtən/- Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), English mathematician and physicist, considered the greatest single influence on theoretical physics until Einstein牛顿, 艾萨克爵士(1642-1727, 英国数学家、物理学家, 被认为是爱因斯坦之前对理论物理影响最大的人)。
In his Principia Mathematica (1687), Newton gave a mathematical description of the laws of mechanics and gravitation, and applied these to planetary motion. Opticks (1704) records his optical experiments and theories, including the discovery that white light is made up of a mixture of colours. His work in mathematics included the binomial theorem and differential calculus.