TCoCD: Isaac Newton

(click for larger image, 60k)	French Republic (1957) 18 F 26 * 40 mm Michel 1171 The stamp is part of the set Famous Personages together with Nicolaus Copernicus.
(click for larger image, 37k)	Republic of San Marino (1982) 40 Centimes 20 * 30 mm Michel 1253 The stamp references Newton's work on the binomial theorem (a + b)ⁿ.
(click for larger image, 58k)	Great Britain (1987) 18 p 29 * 41 mm Michel 1101 First stamp from a set of four issued on the 300^th anniversary of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. It shows the legendary apple that is said to have inspired him to his ideas about gravity.
(click for larger image, 62k)	Great Britain (1987) 22 p 29 * 41 mm Michel 1102 The stamp depicts the sun and the planets: Motion of bodies in ellipses.
(click for larger image, 57k)	Great Britain (1987) 31 p 29 * 41 mm Michel 1103 The Stamp show the refraction of light at a glass bulb: Opticks or a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light.
(click for larger image, 68k)	Great Britain (1987) 34 p 29 * 41 mm Michel 1104 The stamp shows the Earth and a satellite: System of the world.
(click for larger image, 105k)	Soviet Union (1987) 5 K 28 * 39 mm Michel 5758 The stamp was issued on the 300^th anniversary of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
(click for larger image, 58k)	Federal Republic of Germany (14.01.1993) 100 Pf 43 * 26 mm Michel 1646 The stamp was issued on the 350^th birthday of the english mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton. In the background one of his draft concerning his research on refraction and Newton's second law of motion.
	First day postmark with Newton's signature and a draft concerning the three-body problem.