if it’s good enough for the Man upstairs…
It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion.
- Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in Religion of Isaac Newton (Fremantle lectures)
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Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727] a theologian, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher and alchemist. Newton is best known for his treatise Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, in which he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion. This work helped remove the last doubts about heliocentrism and advanced the scientific revolution. Among his other accomplishments, he invented the reflecting telescope, developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into a visible spectrum, and shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development in calculus. Newton was deemed more influential that Albert Einstein in a 2005 poll of the Royal Society of who had the greatest effect on the history of science.