# Isaac Newton — Representative Men character guide

> Isaac Newton in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Newton, Sir Isaac Newton

**First appearance:** 0000-i-uses-of-great-men

## Who they are

English physicist and mathematician, referenced as a symbol of scientific discovery.

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