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The life and work of Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton has been considered one of the most outstanding scientists of all time.  

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The life and work of Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton has been considered one of the most outstanding scientists of all time. He has often been portrayed as a man who saw the world in absolutes and adopted an image of a scientist who after centuries of ignorance and superstition gave rise to a time of empirical science in a modern world. However various sources have personified Newton in a different light. There is evidence to suggest that Newton was a seeker of a synthesis of all knowledge and believed that there was a unified theory of the principles of the universe. It also suggests the he believed that this synthesis was once known to mankind. Newton spent his life looking for this combination of complex ideas not only through mathematics and physics but through the pursuit of alchemy, chronology, and theology, always seeking to include God in all his investigations....

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