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The 150 pages that link to Isaac Newton, each with the reason it gives.

• Émilie du ChâteletRelated: His Principia was the central work she translated and explained for French readers.

• Hamilton–Jacobi equationCompared with: The equation recasts Newtonian trajectories through an action function rather than force-based evolution.

• MathematicsRelated: Calculus transformed the mathematical treatment of continuous change.

• InfinitesimalRelated: His calculus used variable infinitesimal quantities called evanescent increments.

• Mechanical philosophyRelated: His success with mathematical laws challenged strict accounts limited to contact mechanisms.

• Potential theoryRelated: His inverse-square law led to the gravitational potentials later treated by the subject.

• PhysicsRelated: His synthesis made terrestrial and celestial motion parts of one mathematical account.

• Time-reversal symmetryRelated: Newtonian equations of motion are invariant under time reversal in their ideal conservative form.

• Transcendental idealismRelated: Kant sought to explain how Newtonian science could yield necessary knowledge of nature.

• Trinity College, CambridgeRelated: He studied and held a fellowship at Trinity, where he developed major parts of his work.

• Integral calculusRelated: His method of fluxions linked rates of change with accumulated quantities.

• Johann BernoulliCompared with: The priority dispute between Newton’s circle and Leibniz’s followers framed Johann’s mathematical loyalties.

• Johannes HeveliusRelated: Newton’s generation inherited the observational records compiled by Hevelius and his contemporaries.

• John FlamsteedRelated: Newton sought access to Flamsteed’s lunar observations for astronomical calculations.

• Optical astronomyRelated: His reflecting telescope design helped overcome chromatic aberration in lens-based instruments.

• Action at a distanceRelated: Newton’s gravitational theory made action across immense distances mathematically precise.

• George CayleyRelated: Newtonian mechanics provided the broader framework for analyzing forces acting on a flying machine.

• History of calculusRelated: His calculus linked rates of change to motion and gravitation.

• Newtonian telescopeRelated: He built the first known reflecting telescope using the arrangement now bearing his name.

• Rudolphine TablesRelated: Newton later explained the orbital regularities underlying the tables through gravitational theory.

• Solar spectrumRelated: His prism experiments established that sunlight contains a range of colors.

• Sophie GermainRelated: Newton’s writings helped inspire Germain’s early commitment to mathematical study.

• Spherical aberrationRelated: Reflecting optics offered a route around refractive-lens limitations, including spherical aberration in mirrors.

• Abraham de MoivreRelated: Newton reportedly helped secure de Moivre’s recognition in Britain after his arrival from France.

• Color matchingRelated: His prism experiments framed the spectral stimuli later used in matching studies.

• Mach's principleRelated: Newton's account of rotation provided the target of Mach's criticism.

• Newton's first lawRelated: Newton stated the first law as part of the framework published in the Principia.

• Philosophy of natureRelated: Newton’s mechanics made universal mathematical laws a defining model of natural explanation.

• PrecessionRelated: Newtonian mechanics explains torque-driven precession and the gravitational forces that cause it.

• South Sea BubbleRelated: He invested in South Sea shares, sold at a profit, then re-entered and lost heavily.

• Galactic tideRelated: Newtonian gravity provides the framework for calculating galactic tidal forces.

• James Joseph SylvesterCompared with: Sylvester’s Cambridge education centered on Newtonian mathematics, which he later sought to extend.

• Lunar theoryRelated: Universal gravitation gave lunar theory a physical account of orbital perturbations.

• Mechanism (philosophy)Related: Newtonian laws offered powerful mathematical descriptions, while leaving debate over mechanism's demand for contact causes.

• Newton's ringsRelated: The circular fringes became associated with his investigations of light and thin films.

• Pierre Louis MaupertuisRelated: Newton’s prediction of an oblate Earth guided the interpretation of Maupertuis’s measurements.

• Principle of relativityRelated: His mechanics made inertial-frame equivalence a central principle of classical physics.

• A Treatise of Human NatureRelated: Hume sought a systematic study of human nature modeled on Newtonian inquiry.

• Alexandre KoyréRelated: Koyré studied Newton’s synthesis as a defining expression of the new scientific worldview.

• Analytical mechanicsCompared with: Newtonian force laws provide the vector-based formulation that analytical mechanics reorganizes.

• Copernican systemNarrower topic: Newtonian mechanics later supplied a physical framework for planetary motion beyond Copernicus’s kinematic model.

• Henry OldenburgRelated: Oldenburg published Newton’s early scientific work and helped bring his discoveries before the Royal Society.

• Horner's methodRelated: Newton described a related nested procedure for polynomial approximation.

• John RayRelated: Ray and Newton belonged to overlapping networks of seventeenth-century English natural philosophers.

• Leibniz notationCompared with: Newton's fluxion notation offered a competing language for calculus.

• NewtonianismBroader topic: Newton’s works and reputation gave the tradition its name and authority.

• Pure mathematicsRelated: His work illustrates the historically shifting boundary between abstract mathematics and physical application.

• Absolute space and timeRelated: Newton gave the clearest systematic defense of absolute space and time.

• Alexis ClairautRelated: Newton’s prediction of a flattened Earth prompted the problem Clairaut addressed mathematically.

• Dynamical systems theoryRelated: Newtonian mechanics supplied an early model of rule-governed time evolution.