17th-century English astronomers

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 natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

English architect (1632–1723)

English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal

British scientist (*~1560 – †1621)

English astronomer

British astronomer

English aristocrat (1564-1632)

English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian

British astronomer

Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer

British astronomer and mathematician

English astronomer

English astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker

member of the Parliament and an English astronomer

English astronomer

17th century astronomer

British astronomer

English politician

British astronomer and manuscripts scholar