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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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Frontispiece and title page of the 1726 third edition of the Principia with a George Vertue engraving of a John Vanderbank painting of Newton
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An anonymous contemporary portrait of Newton
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And another anonymous portrait, circa 1690
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Newton's manuscripts on optics and the theory of colour, with Newton's own prism resting on top
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Isaac Newton under the apple tree, watercolour by Johann Brandstetter
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Pelagio Palagi's 1827 painting Newton discovers the refraction of light
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Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire: Newton's birthplace in 1643
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William Blake, Newton, 1795
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An engraving of Newton by Houbraken after a Kneller portrait, undated
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Title page of Opticks, second edition, London 1794
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Title page of the first edition of the Principia, London 1687
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A plate from Opticks, 1704, showing light splitting through prisms
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From WJ Gravesande's Physices Elementa Mathematica, a popular explanation of the Principia
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Newton's house on the corner of Orange and St Martin's Streets, London, as it appeared circa 1880
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A meeting of the Royal Sociey in Crane Court, Fleet Street, with Newton in the President's chair, in a wood engraving, circa 1880
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Newton's handwritten solution of the brachystochrone, or curve of quickest descent
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Newton using a prism to analyse colours in a ray of light in a 19th-century engraving
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