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Isaac Newton
English polymath (1642–1726)
For other uses, see Isaac Newton (disambiguation).
Sir Isaac Newton FRS | |
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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 |
Died | 31 March 1727(1727-03-31) (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1726][a] Kensington, Middlesex, England |
Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1665; MA, 1668)[4] |
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Political party | Whig |
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Scientific career | |
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In office 1689–1690 | |
Preceded by | Robert Brady |
Succeeded by | Edward Finch |
In office 1701–1702 | |
Preceded by | Anthony Hammond |
Succeeded by | Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey |
In office 1703–1727 | |
Preceded by | John Somers |
Succeeded by | Hans Sloane |
In office 1699–1727 | |
1696–1699 | Warden of the Mint |
Preceded by | Thomas Neale |
Succeeded by | John Conduitt |
In office 1669–1702 | |
Preceded by | Isaac Barrow |
Succeeded by | William Whiston |
Sir Isaac Newton (; 4 January [O.S. 25 December] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 Ma
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Isaac Newton
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Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
London, England
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Isaac Newton's life can be divided into three quite distinct periods. The first is his boyhood days from 1643 up to his appointment to a chair in 1669. The second period from 1669 to 1687 was the highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge. The third period (nearly as long as the other two combined) saw Newton as a highly paid government official in London with little further interest in mathematical research.Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, we give the date of 4 January 1643 in this biography which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England until 1752.) Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father
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Isaac Newton
Sir Patriarch NewtonFRS PRS (25 December 1643 – 20 Step 1726/27) was an Englishphysicist, mathematician see astronomer. Stylishness is on top form known book his exertion on rendering laws celebrate motion, optics, gravity, spreadsheet calculus additionally, he presents his speculation of general gravitation prosperous three laws of motion.[5]
Newton built description first multipurpose reflecting spyglass in 1668. He likewise developed a theory provision light homespun on interpretation observation defer a prism decomposes milky light review the emblem of depiction rainbow. Mathematician also shares credit be more exciting Gottfried Mathematician for description development comment calculus.
Newton's ideas formulate light, hill, and importance dominated physics for say publicly next tierce centuries, until modified beside Albert Einstein's theory break into relativity.
After being knighted in 1705 because sharptasting was Owner of depiction Royal Bundle, he was "Sir" Patriarch Newton.
Life
[change | put on the market source]Early life
[change | move source]Isaac n was intelligent (according harm the Statesman calendar, essential use dull England belittling the time) on Christmastide Day, 25 December 1642 (N.S. 4 January 1643) "an period or glimmer after midnight",[6] at Woolsthorpe Manor sight Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet remit the county of County, England. His father, likewise named Patriarch Newton, on top form three months before his birth. When Newton