Which English scientist and Master of the Mint published the Principia Mathematica in 1687?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Isaac Newton
- Step 1: Newton became perhaps the best-known Master of the Mint upon the death of Thomas Neale in 1699, a position he held for the last 30 years of his life. and "His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics." Answer: Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was Master of the Mint and wrote the Principia. Why not the others: Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke and Edmund Halley don't fit.
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