18th-century English mathematicians

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

English mathematician (1685–1731)

British mathematician and Presbyterian minister (1702-1761)

English mathematician

English mathematician (1745–1807)

English mathematician

British mathematician (1710-1761)

theologian, historian, mathematician, and translator (1667-1752)

English astronomer (1700-1764)

English mathematician

British engineer

English mathematician

British mathematician, astronomer and physicist

English mathematician (1682–1739)

British mathematician (1653–1742)

mathematician

English mathematician (1741-1793)

mathematician

British politician (1751-1804)

British mathematician and astronomer (1690-1754)

English mathematician and botanist (1739-1775)

British mathematician

British mathematician and doctor; (1684-1750)

English mathematician and music theorist (1689-1768)

British mathematician

British mathematician and theologian (1675-1715)

British scholar and actuary

British astronomer

British mathematician (1678–1760)

British mathematician

astronomer

British geologist, cartographer and mathematician (1719-1787)

English mathematician and surgeon