The book of the famous Soviet scientist and writer V.P. Kartsev is the first in Russian scientific and artistic biography of one of the greatest thinkers in the world - the English mathematician, physicist, mechanic and astronomer Isaac Newton, who influenced the entire development of science up to our time. The book is built on extensive documentary material, domestic and foreign. It also contains a wide canvas of the social and scientific life of England in the late XVII - first half of the XVIII century.