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Great Physicists · Classical

Isaac Newton

A farm boy who, in two plague years, invented calculus, decoded light and conceived universal gravitation; then wrote the Principia, ran the Royal Mint, chased counterfeiters, and lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.

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Prereqs: Galileo (Great Minds › Physicists) helps; Exponents & logs (Math). Next: Faraday. Sources: Westfall's *Never at Rest*, Gleick's *Isaac Newton*, and MIT 8.01.
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