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Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.[7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics.[8][9] Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.[10][11] He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history. 213.6.39.154 ( talk) 08:37, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
There was a practice here to eliminate the puffery that was included in many articles of scientists as much as possible. This was also done for this article. Now, we read: "He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history." Along with five sources, of which many are childish and others (New Scientist) are not even supporting the claim. Is Wikipedia now going the other direction? In that case we can make the claim in every article of every scientist in the list of that absurd book The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present (one of the sources here). What a childish and petty practice. GoneWithThePuffery ( talk) 23:09, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.— Panamitsu (talk) 02:24, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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Should the sentence "He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history." be removed from the lead of this article? — Jumbo T ( talk) 13:27, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Satyendra Nath Bose, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others, while members of rank of 5 were deemed "pathologists".Do you think WP editors can rank physicists better? Artem.G ( talk) 17:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
This was at a time when there was no clear distinction between alchemy and science, and had he not relied on the occult idea of action at a distance, across a vacuum, he might not have developed his theory of gravity.which, btw, is wrong twice over: (a) the motto of the Royal Society declared Nullius in verba, is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it", adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments; so if
there was no clear distinction between alchemy and sciencethen it was contrary to the Society's founding principles. (b) Hooke had established the principle in 1665 while Newton was still fantasising about the motion of the planets being due to vortices in the aether. It took Halley to persuade him to get over his animosity for Hooke and find the mathematical proof that became the Principia.)
In a 2005 survey of members of Britain's Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein, the members deemed Newton to have made the greater overall contribution. [1] In 1999, an opinion poll of 100 of the day's leading physicists voted Einstein the "greatest physicist ever," with Newton the runner-up, while a parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists by the site PhysicsWeb gave the top spot to Newton. [2] [3] New Scientist called Newton "the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science".
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.[7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics.[8][9] Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz.[10][11] He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history. 213.6.39.154 ( talk) 08:37, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
There was a practice here to eliminate the puffery that was included in many articles of scientists as much as possible. This was also done for this article. Now, we read: "He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history." Along with five sources, of which many are childish and others (New Scientist) are not even supporting the claim. Is Wikipedia now going the other direction? In that case we can make the claim in every article of every scientist in the list of that absurd book The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present (one of the sources here). What a childish and petty practice. GoneWithThePuffery ( talk) 23:09, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.— Panamitsu (talk) 02:24, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
To better structure discussion around this seemingly contentious issue, I think we ought to do this as described at
WP:RFC. Please keep this
civil and show some sympathy towards each other.
Should the sentence "He is considered one of the greatest and most influential scientists in history." be removed from the lead of this article? — Jumbo T ( talk) 13:27, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Satyendra Nath Bose, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others, while members of rank of 5 were deemed "pathologists".Do you think WP editors can rank physicists better? Artem.G ( talk) 17:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
This was at a time when there was no clear distinction between alchemy and science, and had he not relied on the occult idea of action at a distance, across a vacuum, he might not have developed his theory of gravity.which, btw, is wrong twice over: (a) the motto of the Royal Society declared Nullius in verba, is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it", adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments; so if
there was no clear distinction between alchemy and sciencethen it was contrary to the Society's founding principles. (b) Hooke had established the principle in 1665 while Newton was still fantasising about the motion of the planets being due to vortices in the aether. It took Halley to persuade him to get over his animosity for Hooke and find the mathematical proof that became the Principia.)
In a 2005 survey of members of Britain's Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein, the members deemed Newton to have made the greater overall contribution. [1] In 1999, an opinion poll of 100 of the day's leading physicists voted Einstein the "greatest physicist ever," with Newton the runner-up, while a parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists by the site PhysicsWeb gave the top spot to Newton. [2] [3] New Scientist called Newton "the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science".
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The Info table is missing from the Isaac Newton article due to a recent edit by user BettyRavioli , i can't revert myself bcz of the semi protection DeltaV20 ( talk) 10:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)