Newtonian

a. Pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or formed or discovered by him.

Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton;—a term used either of the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's Principia, or of the modern or experimental philosophy as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others, or, more frequently, of the mathematical theory of universal gravitation. —Newtonian telescope, a reflecting telescope, in which rays from the large speculum are received by a plane mirror placed diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eye-piece.