This is Wikipedia's article on Isaac Newton, maintained through Wikipedia's ordinary community editing process rather than a fixed editorial board. Its strength is that Wikipedia articles on a figure this extensively documented across centuries of scholarship are generally reliable for standard, uncontroversial biographical facts, dates, positions held and major published works, checked and corrected by a very large number of editors over time. Its limit is structural rather than specific to this article, it is a perpetually community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication, so it is the right source for standard biographical facts about Newton but not for a contested or specialist claim about, for instance, his alchemical or theological writings and their relationship to his physics, which needs the dedicated Newton scholarship this article itself draws from.
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Wikipedia's article on Isaac Newton is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication, hence the lower tier, though generally reliable for standard, uncontroversial biographical facts given how extensively edited and checked an article on a figure this documented is. NotesWikipedia's article on Isaac Newton. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Isaac Newton (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (283 claims)
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- Historical Figures, 275 claims: 274 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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