Isaac Newton, natural philosopher and mathematician, was born in 1642, during the Civil Wars between Cavalier and Roundhead. He was born on Christmas day, in the manor house at the village of Woolsthorpe, about seven miles south of Grantham, Lincolnshire.
When he was twelve, Isaac was sent to the King’s School in Grantham.
He graduated with BA in January 1665. At the age of eighteenth and half, Sir Isaac Newton became a member of the University of Cambridge, and went to reside there in 1661.
He was elected as Minor Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge on October 1st 1667. Isaac Newton was appointed as Lucasian Professor in 1669.
Newton’s first major discovery came in quadratures, or what is now called integration. His achievements also include the theory of universal gravitation, the derivation of Kepler’s Law of planetary motion, the binomial theorem and the theories of optics.
He served as president of the Royal Society from 1703 until his death, and was knighted in 1705. He died in March 20th 1727.
Sir Isaac Newton
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