Isaac Newton

Profession: Physicist & Mathematician

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Why Famous: One of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. Famed for the laws of motion.

Born: December 25, 1642
Birthplace: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England
Star Sign: Capricorn

Died: March 31, 1727 (aged 84)

Articles and Photos

Great Plague of London
Drivers of death carts in London would go street-to-street extolling people to "bring out your dead" at the height of the London plague outbreak in 1665
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Historical Events

1661-06-05 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1668-07-07 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1672-02-08 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1676-02-15 Isaac Newton writes to Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” (O.S. 5 Feb)
1684-12-10 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley
1687-07-05 Isaac Newton's great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation
1697-01-26 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1705-04-16 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge
2018-06-15 Physicist Stephen Hawking's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin

Quotes by Isaac Newton

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

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