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Isaac Newton
Overview
English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
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Sir Isaac Newton has demonstrated to the eye, by the bare assistance of the prism, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single ray is by him divided into seven, which all fall upon a piece of linen, or a sheet of white paper, in their order, one above the other, and at unequal distances.
Voltaire, Letters on England
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This force, now so evidently demonstrated, and before the time of the great Newton so little known, by which all the planets gravitate towards each other, and which retain them in their orbits, was already become familiar to a sovereign of Russia, while other countries amused themselves with imaginary vertices, and, in Galileo's nation, one set of ignorant persons ordered others, as ignorant, to believe the earth to…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Such is the system of Sir Isaac Newton, a system whose parts are all more strictly connected together, than those of any other philosophical hypothesis. Allow his principle, the universality of gravity, and that it decreases as the squares of the distance increase, and all the appearances, which he joins together by it, necessarily follow. Neither is their connection merely a general and loose connection, as that of…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
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Philosophers who discussed Isaac Newton
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Giordano Bruno
- Antony Flew
- Heraclitus
- William Godwin
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- Kurt Gödel
- David Hartley (philosopher)
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Samuel Clarke
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- William Whewell
- Joseph de Maistre
- Alexandre Koyré
- Pythagoras
- Herbert Spencer
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