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  2. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Early life of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Cambridge University physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was a fellow of the Royal Society of England, who created a single system for describing the workings of the universe.

  5. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall; [3] the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others; and the theory of the evolution ...

  6. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1672: Sir Isaac Newton: discovers that white light is a mixture of distinct coloured rays (the spectrum). 1673: Christiaan Huygens: first study of oscillating system and design of pendulum clocks; 1675: Leibniz, Newton: infinitesimal calculus. 1675: Anton van Leeuwenhoek: observes microorganisms using a refined simple microscope.

  7. History of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton developed further ties between physics and astronomy through his law of universal gravitation. Realizing that the same force that attracts objects to the surface of the Earth held the Moon in orbit around the Earth, Newton was able to explain – in one theoretical framework – all known gravitational phenomena.

  8. As Clay High School prepares to close, meet eight alumni with ...

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    She began performing at age 3 and appeared in many theatrical productions with Clay High School and South Bend Civic Theatre, where she produced and directed a production of "Dog Sees God" while ...

  9. Isaac Newton in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history.His Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is considered to be one of the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.