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Catherine Barton (1679–1739) was an English woman who oversaw the running of the household of her uncle, scientist Isaac Newton.She was reputed to be the source of the story of the apple inspiring Newton's work on gravity, and his papers came to her on his death.
Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [27] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...
Newton got his appointment because of his renown as a scientist and because he supported the winning side in the Glorious Revolution. [13] [14]At some time Locke nearly succeeded in procuring Newton an appointment as provost of King's College, Cambridge, but the college had offered a successful resistance on the grounds that the appointment would be illegal; its statutes required that the ...
Since the 18th century, it has become a prestigious honour for any British person to be buried or commemorated in the abbey, a practice much boosted by the lavish funeral and monument of Sir Isaac Newton, who died in 1727. [3] By 1900, so many prominent figures were buried in the abbey that the writer William Morris called it a "National ...
In 1654, William provided boarding to Isaac Newton as he would be attending the King's School with Edward and Arthur Storer. Newton's mother remained in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, which was about eight miles away from the Clarke residence. Many of Newton's biographers have noted that it was the lessons learned from Clarke that sparked Newton ...
June Newton, also known under her photographic pseudonym Alice Springs, died on Friday at the age of 97 in her home in Monte Carlo. An award-winning actress and photographer, she was the former ...
His first certain portrayal of Kathleen Newton is the etched Portrait of Mrs N., also known as La Frileuse, [30] completed in late December 1876 after publication of Tissot's Ten Etchings portfolio. Ten Etchings was designed by Tissot to showcase the best of his recent work and would surely have included a portrait of Kathleen if they had ...