Masters of the Mint

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 polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827

British chemist (1805–1869)

British politician (1784-1849)

British politician (1762-1834)

English nobleman (1431-1483)

British politician (1731–1812)

English politician (1798-1869)

British politician (1774–1848)

British politician (1761-1830)

British politician (1767-1837)

Anglo-Irish politician (1763-1845)

English courtier, scholar, and patron of learning

British politician (1776-1858)

British politician and diplomat (1755-1815)

British politician and financier (1778-1855)

British Marquess (1753-1811)

British politician; (1791-1851)

British politician

British politician