English philosophers of science

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)

English philosopher (1588–1679)

British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)

English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)

English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)

British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

English philosopher (1922–2009)

British philosopher of religion

English philosopher (1924-2016)

English physician and early Baconian natural philosopher

English philosopher and ethicist (1900–1990)

British theologian