Isaac Newton Portrait

Isaac Newton Portrait

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Isaac Newton

Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Scientist (1643–1727)

Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion, and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. In 1687, he published his most famous work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). In 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne of England, making him Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is also remembered as a transformative scholar, inventor and writer.

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, though he eventually attended the King’s School in Grantham before enrolling at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1661.

Newton studied at Cambridge where he became fascinated by the works of modern philosophers such as René Descartes. When the Great Plague shuttered Cambridge in 1665, Newton returned home and began formulating his theories on calculus where his farm became the setting for the supposed falling apple that inspired his work on gravity.