Definition of Sir Isaac Newton

1. Noun. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727).

Exact synonyms: Isaac Newton, Newton
Generic synonyms: Mathematician, Physicist
Derivative terms: Newtonian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Harold Walter Kroto
Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder
Sir Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Joseph Wood
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
Sir Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Percy
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Wood
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
Sir Howard Walter Florey
Sir Humphrey Davy
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Isaac Newton (current term)
Sir Isaac Pitman
Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Jacob Epstein
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Sir James Augustus Murray
Sir James Clark Ross
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir James Murray
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Literary usage of Sir Isaac Newton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Sir Isaac Newton was an only and posthumous child ; he could therefore have had no very near kindred of his own name ; but a pedigree of his family, ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc, late Divinity Professor of the ... Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Dr. Bentley, containing some ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"Generally attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, Animadversions upon Sir I. Newton's ... Ss. Two Letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc, late Divinity ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) gx HAS been said that ... The life of Sir Isaac Newton, in its harmony, in the smoothness of its course, in the perfection of ..."

5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"Translated from the original Latin of Sir Isaac Newton by the Rev. John Colson. ... Generally attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, but not included in Bishop ..."

6. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introduction and Notes by William Caxton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt (1910)
"... but requires them to be drawn; for it requires that the learner should first be taught to describe these accurately, before he Sir Isaac Newton, ..."

7. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1856)
"Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER, KH, FRS, &c. &c. 2 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh and London: 1855. 2. ..."

8. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1861)
"Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. ... Monument to Sir Isaac Newton. By Henry, Lord Brougham, FRS London, ..."

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