Synonyms:
Newton, Isaac_Newton, Sir_Isaac_Newton
Meaning: English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
Usage examples
There's Ned Newton, too.
"Ned Newton, you know him.
Certainly Newton did not know it.
The sextant, as used by navigators, was also invented by Newton.
I have mentioned Voltaire in connection with Newton's philosophy.
Like Newton and the falling apple, Levy and the hysteresis in the warp field.
By this time Newton was only forty-five years old, but his main work was done.
In the next edition Newton liberally recognizes the claims of both Hooke and Wren.
The Society at his representation wrote to Mr. Newton asking leave that it might be printed.
He had been at Cambridge, doubtless had heard Newton lecture, and had acquired a great veneration for him.