The article looks at the early and earliest uses of the word Newtonian in the English language. Topics discussed include the role of the word as an adjective and a noun according to historians, claims of the "Oxford English Dictionary" that the adjective can be dated to January 24, 1675 or 1676, and discovery that the noun Newtonian was first used in 1741 to refer to a follower or supporter of English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton.