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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 196. Chapters: Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Paine, Emery Molyneux, Robert Hooke, Matthew Boulton, Frank Whittle, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Cecil Vandepeer Clarke, Geoffrey Pyke, William Stanley (inventor), Michael Faraday, William Fothergill Cooke, Francis Galton, Charles Wheatstone, John Harrison, John Kay (flying shuttle), Tim Berners-Lee, William Howard Livens, George Stephenson, Michael Aldrich, John Arnold, William Petty, John Browning (scientific instrument maker), Barnes Wallis, Princess Anne of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Eleanor Coade, Rowland Hill (postal reformer), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Stephen Hales, Robert Stephenson, Everard Calthrop, Oliver Lodge, Richard Arkwright, Frederick W. Lanchester, Thomas Thorp (scientific instrument manufacturer), Richard Towneley, Harry Ricardo, Archibald Low, George Cayley, Frederick Settle Barff, Clive Sinclair. Excerpt: Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian, who has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived. His monograph Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motion of objects on Earth and that of celestial bodies is governed by the same set of natural laws: by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation he removed the last doubts about heliocentrism and advanced the scientific revolution. The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written, both due to the specific physical laws the work successfully described, and for its style, which assisted in setting standards for scientific publication down to the present time. Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of differential and integral calculus. He generalised the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents, developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function, and contributed to the study of power series. Although an unorthodox Christian, Newton was deeply religious and his occult studies took up a substantial part of his life. He secretly rejected Trinitarianism and refused holy orders. Isaac Newton was born on what is retroactively considered 4 January 164
