Isaac Newton - Fictional appearances

Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is regarded by many as the most influential scientist in history. Most importantly, Newton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary mo ...

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• Isaac Newton - Later life
• Isaac Newton - Religious views
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• Isaac Newton - Newton versus the counterfeiters
• Isaac Newton - Enlightenment philosophers
• Isaac Newton - Newton's legacy
• Isaac Newton - Newton's apple
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Isaac Newton appears in many works of fiction. He is a recurring figure in Rubrique-à-brac, a French comic strip by Marcel Gotlieb. An ongoing gag involves various depictions of the legend that he discovered the law of gravity due to an apple falling on his head. Newton also figures as a major character in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and in Philip Kerr's novel, Dark Matter. Newton's statue plays a pivotal role in a semi-autobiographical novel cum history of science set in Cambridge by the Dutch physicist an ...

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