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Sir Isaac Newton: Biography
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Biography: Life of
Sir Isaac Newton
Born 1642, Died 1727; Inventor of the Reflecting Telescope.
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at Woolsthorpe, England. Newton attended Cambridge University where he became interested in mathematics.
When Cambridge University was forced to close in 1665 because of a bubonic epidemic, Isaac Newton returned to his home. There he worked on light, gravity and calculus. He made three of the greatest scientific discoveries in these fields.
Newton discovered differential calculus, dealing with the rate and amount of change of something moving through a certain length of time or space.
The research of Isaac Newton with light led to the discovery that white light is a mixture of colored light and that light is made up of tiny particles which travel in straight lines at great speed.
Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravitation through his observations of the moon. He concluded that the attraction of the earth and the moon for each other was the reason for the regular path of the moon around the earth.
Newton was appointed professor of mathematics at Cambridge University in 1669. In 1672 he invented the reflecting telescope.
Isaac Newton was appointed Warden of the Mint in 1696 and Master of the Mint in 1699. In 1705 he was knighted. Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727 at the age of 84.
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