Who were Newton's contemporaries?
Isaac Newton lived from 1643 to 1727. Among his contemporaries were not only great rivals like Leibniz, but painters, composers and writers too.
Newton's lifespan is highlighted. The other bars show some notable contemporaries.
Meanwhile, in the same years.
The calculus dispute
Newton and Leibniz invented calculus independently of each other, and in their later years they quarreled bitterly over who had invented it first.
Light in Delft
Newton used a prism to show that white light is made of all the colors, while Vermeer in Delft brought light itself onto the canvas.
A new music begins
Bach was born in 1685, just two years before Newton published his Principia in 1687, one of the most important works in science.
Reason takes hold
When Newton died in 1727, Voltaire was a young man of 32. Later, he would make Newton's ideas known in France.
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