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Isaac Newton’s Life

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I  INTRODUCTION

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. He remained at the university, lecturing in most years, until 1696. Of these Cambridge years, in which Newton was at the height of his creative power, he singled out 1665-1666 (spent largely in Lincolnshire because of plague in Cambridge) as “the prime of my age for invention”. During two to three years of intense mental effort he prepared Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) commonly known as the Principia, although this was not published until 1687.

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Isaac Newton: Early Life and Education

Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The son of a farmer who died three months before he was born, Newton spent most of his early years with his maternal grandmother after his mother remarried. His education was interrupted by a failed attempt to turn him into a farmer, and he attended the King’s School in Grantham before enrolling at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1661.

Newton studied a classical curriculum at Cambridge, but he became fascinated by the works of modern philosophers such as René Descartes, even devoting a set of notes to his outside readings he titled “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae” (“Certain Philosophical Questions”). When the Great Plague shuttered Cambridge in 1665, Newton returned home and began formulating his theories on calculus, light and color, his farm the setting for the supposed falling apple that inspired his work on gravity.

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Isaac Newton

English polymath (1642–1726)

For other uses, see Isaac Newton (disambiguation).

Sir Isaac Newton

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Portrait of Newton at 46, 1689

Born(1643-01-04)4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642][a]

Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England

Died31 March 1727(1727-03-31) (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1726][a]

Kensington, Middlesex, England

Resting placeWestminster Abbey
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1665; MA, 1668)[4]
Known for
Political partyWhig
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Academic advisors
Notable students
In office
1689–1690
Preceded byRobert Brady
Succeeded byEdward Finch
In office
1701–1702
Preceded byAnthony Hammond
Succeeded byArthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey
In office
1703–1727
Preceded byJohn Somers
Succeeded byHans Sloane
In office
1699–1727
1696–1699Warden of the Mint
Preceded byThomas Neale
Succeeded byJohn Conduitt
In office
1669–1

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