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Isaac Newton (1643–1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion laid the groundwork for classical mechanics.
READING LIST &c.
WRITERS- Atwood, Margaret
- Austen, Jane
- Brontë sisters
- Burton, Sir Richard
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Conrad, Joseph
- Curtis, Adam
- de Cervantes, Miguel
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Faulkner, William
- Forster, E. M.
- García Márquez
- Greene, Graham
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hemingway, Earnest
- Huxley, Aldous
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kureishi, Hanif
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Melville, Herman
- Miller, Henry
- Morrison, Toni
- Nin, Anaïs
- Orwell, George
- Proust, Marcel
- Roy, Anuradha
- Rushdie, Salman
- Şafak, Elif
- Seneca
- Smith, Zadie
- Steinbeck, John
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Updike, John
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wilde, Oscar
- Woolf, Virginia
- Zola, Émile
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POETS- Aesop
- Alighieri, Dante
- Angelou, Maya
- Blake, William
- Byron, Lord
- Catullus, Gaius
- Coleridge, Samuel T.
- Cummings, E. E.
- Dickinson, Emily
- Donne, John
- Dryden, John
- Eliot, T. S.
- Frost, Robert
- Gibran, Kahlil
- Heaney, Seamus
- Homer
- Horace
- Kaur, Rupi
- Keats, John
- Larkin, Philip
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Milton, John
- Ovid
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poe, Edgar Allen
- Pound, Ezra
- Raleigh, Walter
- Rumi
- Sappho
- Sexton, Anne
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelley, Percy
- Silverstein, Shel
- Spenser, Edmund
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Virgil
- Walcott, Derek
- Whitman, Walt
- Wyatt, Thomas
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PHILOSOPHERS- Antisthenes
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Bacon, Francis
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Cicero
- Confucius
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- Democritus
- Derrida, Jacques
- Descartes, René
- Empedocles
- Epicurus
- Foucault, Michel
- Hegel, Georg
- Heraclitus
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hume, David
- John Stuart Mill
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- Lao-Tzu
- Locke, John
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paine, Tom
- Parmenides
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Pope Gregory I
- Popper, Karl
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean
- Russell, Bertrand
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Socrates
- Spinoza, Baruch
- St Augustine
- Thales
- Voltaire
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Zeno of Citium
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PSYCHOLOGISTS- Bandura, Albert
- Ekman, Paul
- Erikson, Erik
- Festinger, Leon
- Freud, Sigmund
- Horney, Karen
- James, William
- Johnson, Virginia
- Jung, Carl
- Kahneman, Daniel
- Kinsey, Alfred
- Klein, Melanie
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Piaget, Jean
- Pinker, Steven
- Rogers, Carl
- Skinner, B. F.
- Vygotsky, Lev
POLITICAL FIGURES
- ⅰ Queen Boudica
- ⅱ King Alfred the Great
- ⅲ King Edward I
- ⅳ King Henry V
- ⅴ King Henry VIII
- ⅵ Queen Elizabeth I
- ⅶ King Charles II
- ⅷ Queen Victoria
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Chomsky, Noam
- Columbus, Christopher
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Darwin, Charles
- Dawkins, Richard
- Einstein, Albert
- Fukuyama, Francis
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Harari, Yuval
- Hobsbawm, Eric
- Lovelace, Ada
- Michelangelo
- Newton, Isaac
- Saïd, Edward
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