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Isaac Newton
1. Newton's Life
Newton's life naturally divides into four parts: the years before he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in ; his years in Cambridge before the Principia was published in ; a period of almost a decade immediately following this publication, marked by the renown it brought him and his increasing disenchantment with Cambridge; and his final three decades in London, for most of which he was Master of the Mint. While he remained intellectually active during his years in London, his legendary advances date almost entirely from his years in Cambridge. Nevertheless, save for his optical papers of the early s and the first edition of the Principia, all his works published before he died fell within his years in London.[1]
Newton's Early Years
Newton was born into a Puritan family in Woolsthorpe, a small village in Linconshire nära Grantham, on 25 December (old calendar), a few days short of one year after Galileo died. Isaac's father, a farmer, died
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Isaac Newton: Early Life and Education
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, , 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
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 , 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.
History Shorts: Isaac Newton'
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Isaac Newton
English polymath (–)
For other uses, see Isaac Newton (disambiguation).
Sir Isaac Newton FRS | |
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| Born | ()4 January [O.S. 25 December ][a] Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 31 March () (aged&#;84) [O.S. 20 March ][a] Kensington, Middlesex, England |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, ; MA, )[4] |
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| Political party | Whig |
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| Preceded by | Robert Brady |
| Succeeded by | Edward Finch |
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| Preceded by | Anthony Hammond |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey |
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| Preceded by | John Somers |
| Succeeded by | Hans Sloane |
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| – | Warden of the Mint |
| Preceded by | Thomas Neale |
| Succeeded by | John Conduitt |
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