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Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and his family home. The orchard in the grounds is home to the famous Newton apple tree. A Grade I listed building, [1] it is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
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 ...
8000 Isaac Newton, a main-belt asteroid; Isaac Newton University Lodge, a masonic temple in Cambridge, England; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge; Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form, a specialist college in Norwich, England; Statal Institute of Higher Education Isaac Newton, a secondary school in Varese, Italy
Name Speciality Tenure (years) 1 1663 Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) Classics and mathematics 6 2 1669 Isaac Newton (1643–1727) Mathematics and physics 33 3 1702 William Whiston (1667–1752) Mathematics 9 4 1711 Nicholas Saunderson (1682–1739) Mathematics 28 5 1739 John Colson (1680–1760) Mathematics 21 6 1760 Edward Waring (1736–1798 ...
Newton was born into an Anglican family three months after the death of his father, a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. When Newton was three, his mother married the rector of the neighbouring parish of North Witham and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. [9]
Isaac Newton^*º (1642–1727) Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716) John Flamsteed (1646–1719) Edmond Pourchot (1651–1734) Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705) Edmond Halley (1656–1742) Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742) Jakob Hermann (1678–1733) Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771) Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695–1726) Pierre Louis ...
Isaac Newton (1642–1727), UK – reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration) Miguel Nicolelis (born 1961), Brazil – Brain-machine interfaces; Joseph Nicephore Niépce (1765–1833), France – photography