Who were Newton's contemporaries?
Isaac Newton lived from 1643 to 1727. Among his contemporaries were not only fellow scientists, but painters, composers and writers.
The highlighted column is Newton's life. Each bar is someone whose own life overlapped it.
Meanwhile, in the same years.
The calculus war
Newton and Leibniz invented calculus independently, then spent their later years in a bitter dispute over who did it first.
Light in Delft
While Newton split light into its colours, Vermeer was quietly painting light itself in the Dutch town of Delft.
A new music begins
Bach was born in 1685, into a world that Newton's Principia (1687) was about to reorder.
Reason takes hold
Voltaire, who would later carry Newton's ideas across France, was a young man of 32 when Newton died in 1727.
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