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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).
Generic synonyms: Mathematician, Physicist
Derivative terms: Newtonian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Isaac Newton
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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