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On
5 July 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia,
outlining his thoughts on gravity, the laws of motion and the motion of
planets.
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1EN-104-Q2-1726 Frontispiece and title page of the 1726 third edition of the Principia with a George Vertue engraving of a John Vanderbank painting of Newton
akg-images / British Library
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1EN-104-A2 An anonymous contemporary portrait of Newton
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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1EN-104-A1690 And another anonymous portrait, circa 1690
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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1EN-104-W12-1961 Newton's manuscripts on optics and the theory of colour, with Newton's own prism resting on top
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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1EN-104-E1666 Isaac Newton under the apple tree, watercolour by Johann Brandstetter © akg-images / Johann Brandstetter
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1EN-104-E1666-1 Pelagio Palagi's 1827 painting Newton discovers the refraction of light
akg-images / Electa
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1EN-104-M1-2010-1 Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire: Newton's birthplace in 1643
akg-images / Schütze / Rodemann
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3EN-B1-R1-B William Blake, Newton, 1795
akg-images / Erich Lessing
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7EN-I1-0390001287 An engraving of Newton by Houbraken after a Kneller portrait, undated IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0390002626 Title page of Opticks, second edition, London 1794 IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0390002628 Title page of the first edition of the Principia, London 1687 IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0390002690 A plate from Opticks, 1704, showing light splitting through prisms IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0460001477 From WJ Gravesande's Physices Elementa Mathematica, a popular explanation of the Principia IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0460001505 Newton's house on the corner of Orange and St Martin's Streets, London, as it appeared circa 1880 IAM / akg-images
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7EN-I1-0460001512 A
meeting of the Royal Sociey in Crane Court, Fleet Street, with Newton
in the President's chair, in a wood engraving, circa 1880 IAM / akg-images
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7US-N1-PSCI2A-00080 Newton's handwritten solution of the brachystochrone, or curve of quickest descent
akg-images / North Wind Picture Archives
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7US-N1-PSCI2A-00011 Newton using a prism to analyse colours in a ray of light in a 19th-century engraving
akg-images / North Wind Picture Archives
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