Science that changed the World Ser Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton is an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, philosopher and theologian. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, laid the foundations of classical mechanics and became one of the most important scientific books in history. In this work, Newton introduced the universal gravity and the three laws of motion, and this perspective dominated the scientific world for the next three centuries. Newton demonstrated with the consistency between his law of gravity and Kepler's law of planetary motion that the motion of objects in the world and objects in the sky are governed by the same natural laws. Newton developed the first reflective telescope and created a color theory as a result of the observation that white light makes a spectrum of different colors when exposed to a prism. Newton is considered by scientists as one of the most influential people in history. In the millennium voting held with 100 leading physicists in late 1999, Newton was ranked second after Albert Einstein among the greatest physicists of all time.