Portrait of Newton
Newton
English polymath (1642–1727)

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.

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Optics1 passage
Optics, BK in, 538a✓ correct
See the following Scheme, . Qu. 25. Are there not other original Properties of the Rays of Light, besides those already described? An instance of another original Property we have in the Refraction of Island Crystal, described first by Erasmus Bartholine, and afterwards more exactly by Hugenius, in his Book De la Lumiere. This Crystal is a pellucid fissile Stone, clear as Water or Crystal of the…
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy1 passage
Principles, COROL n 15a~16b✓ correct
THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. DEFINITIONS. DEFINITION I. The quantity of matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly. Thus air of a double density, in a double space, is quadruple in quantity; in a triple space, sextuple in quantity. The same thing is to be understood of snow, and fine dust or powders, that are condensed by…