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Daniel asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 3 years ago

What is Sir Isaac Newton famous for ?

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  • gerald
    Lv 7
    3 years ago
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    for his scientific work on gravity which humans hadn't really discovered like the breakthrough with the discovery bacteria opened the worlds eyes on diseases and revolutionised human health his findings revolutionised our way of thinking about science and engineering

  • 2 years ago

    Many - Laws of motion (dynamics), Gravitation theory, resolving (visible) Light into a spectrum for the first time, invention of 'Calculus' (concurrently with Friedrich Leibnitz) as a much-used branch of Mathematics, Newtonian telescope, each of these has spawned a huge body of knowledge (Science) that bears his name and some more like Newton's Law of cooling, 'Newton-Raphson' method, method of Finite differences. Sir Isaac Newton is famous for all of these .

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  • 3 years ago

    for scientific discoveries like force of gravity

  • Athena
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The fig filled cookie that bares his name.

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Optics and laws of motion.

    And definitely not the alchemy that he also practiced.

  • 3 years ago

    His contributions to science, notably ideas on gravity, and motion. He was actually a Theologian who dabbled in science, but, ended up being really good at it.

  • 3 years ago

    His original theology of course.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    He invented apple pie ..................................................................

  • 3 years ago

    I bet google knows.

  • Gordon
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    delicious fig snacks

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