"How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?"
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist whose work transformed mechanics, optics, and astronomy. His formulation of the laws of motion and universal gravitation became foundational to classical physics.