Sunday, February 12, 2012

Isaac Newton(25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727)

Sir Isaac Newton
Head and shoulders portrait of man in black with shoulder-length grey hair, a large sharp nose, and an abstracted gaze
Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton
(age 46)
Born 25 December 1642
[NS: 4 January 1643][1]
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
Lincolnshire, England
Died 20 March 1727 (aged 84)
[NS: 31 March 1727][1]
Kensington, Middlesex, England
Residence England
Nationality English
Fields Physics, mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, alchemy, Christian theology
Institutions University of Cambridge
Royal Society
Royal Mint
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors Isaac Barrow[2]
Benjamin Pulleyn[3][4]
Notable students Roger Cotes
William Whiston
Known for Newtonian mechanics
Universal gravitation
Infinitesimal calculus
Optics
Binomial series
Newton's method
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Influences Henry More[5]
Polish Brethren[6]
Influenced Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
John Keill
Signature
Is. Newton
Notes
His mother was Hannah Ayscough. His half-niece was Catherine Barton.

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