Father: Isaac Newton (farmer, b. 1606, d. Oct-1642).
Mother: Hannah Ayscough (m. Newton's father 1642, d. 1679).
Stepfather: Barnabas Smith (Christian minister, b. 1582, m. Ayscough 27-Jan-1645, d. 1653).
Stepsister: Mary Smith ( b. 1647).
Stepbrother: Benjamin Smith (Christian minister, b. 1651).
Stepsister: Hannah Smith Pilkington (b. 1652).
Wife: Never Married.
Date of Birth: 4 January 1643.
Birth Place: Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
Date of Death: 20 March 1727 (aged 84).
Date of Death: Kensington, Middlesex, England.
Cause of Death: Illness.
Remains/Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Remains/Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Religion: Unitarian.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Education: High School: King's Grammar School, Grantham, England (1661).
University: BA, Cambridge University (1661-65).
University: MA, Cambridge University (1668).
Occupation: Physicist, Mathematician.
Professor: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University (1669-1701).
Nationality: English (later British).
Notable Works: Newtonian mechanics, Universal gravitation, Infinitesimal calculus, Optics Binomial series, Principia Newton's method.
Major Writings: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687, non-fiction), Opticks (1704, non-fiction), De Mundi Systemate (1728, non-fiction).
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure
in the scientific revolution. He had huge contributions in mathematics
and physics and advanced the work of previous scientists on the laws of
motion as well as the law of gravity. He is often ranked 1/2 with Albert Einstein among the history of leading physicists. Newton was born just about one year after Galileo died.
Childhood & Early Life: Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 at Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
in Lincolnshire, England. His father was also Isaac Newton, a prosperous
farmer who died 3 months before his birth. His mother was Hannah
Ayscough. Newton was educated at The King's School, Grantham from 12 to
17 years old. In June 1661, he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge.
At that time, the college's teachings were based on Aristotle and Newton introduced by modern philosophers such as Descartes and astronomers such as Copernicus, Galileo
and Kepler. In 1665, he discovered the generalised binomial theorem and
began to develop a mathematical theory that later became infinitesimal
calculus and got his College Degree. In 1666, Newton first mentioned Calculus in a manuscript. In 1667, he returned to Cambridge as a
fellow of Trinity. He came up with his reflecting telescope in 1668.
Personal Life & Family: When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her
new husband. He didn't like his stepfather and maintained some enmity
towards his mother after marrying him. Newton never married.
Later Life & Death: In 1669, Newton was selected as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics on
Barrow's recommendation. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics.
In 1687, Newton published his famous book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
He defined here three universal laws of motion, co-founded the field of
calculus, and explained laws of light and colour, among many other
discoveries. In 1689, Newton became a member of the English Parliament
and he was in power until 1701. He was appointed as the warden of the
Royal Mint in 1696. He had friendships with philosopher John Locke
and the mathematicians Richard Bentley and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
(1664-1753). After regarding 1700 Newton and his followers were
concerned in another scientific squabble, now with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
over claims initiated by Fatio that Leibniz's theory of calculus was a
minimum partly taken from Newton's work. In 1703, became the
President of the Royal Society. In 1704, Newton published Opticks,
in which he expounded his corpuscular theory of light and his
reflecting telescope. Newton was knighted in 1705 and upon his death in
1727 was the first scientist given the honour of burial in Westminster
Abbey. He died on 20 March 1727 at Kensington in Middlesex, England.
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