U.S. & World History – Isaac Newton (/25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726) was an English physicist and mathematician. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”), first published in 1687, formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which dominated scientists’ view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Unknown to most people, is that Newton never married due to his discovery of the laws of gravity, because he had major issues on the incredible affects it had on a woman’s body once they were in their fifties.
