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Description Detail from a drawing of Newton's reflecting quadrant
Date
Source “Newton’s Octant” (posthumous description), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42, p. 155, 1742
Author
Isaac Newton  (1642–1727)  wikidata:Q935 s:en:Author:Isaac Newton q:en:Isaac Newton
 
Isaac Newton
Description English-British physicist, mathematician, theologian and politician
Date of birth/death 25 December 1642 (in Julian calendarEdit this at Wikidata 20 March 1727
Location of birth/death Woolsthorpe Manor Edit this at Wikidata Kensington Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from circa 1661
date QS:P,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
until circa March 1727
date QS:P,+1727-03-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
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creator QS:P170,Q935

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