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Sir Isaac Newton
January 4th is the Gregorian Calendar 381st birthday for mathematician, philosopher & scientist Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1726]. Throughout his lifetime, the British used the old Julian calendar, in which the first day of the year was March 1st. They did not switch to the Gregorian calendar that we use today, until 1752. So Newton would have celebrated his birthday as Christmas Day, 1642, which translates into today, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, where the word proleptic means that the calendar is being extended back in time, to a date before it was used.
Newton is likely the most famous of all the people we vaguely call scientists today, although that word was not used back then (the word "scientist" was invented in 1834 by English philosopher William Whewell [1794-1866]). Newton was a natural philosopher, in the language of his time. And we must remember too, that in the 1600s & 1700s, religion, philosophy, and science, were strongly intertwined w
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Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)
Who Was Isaac Newton?
Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution.
In 1687, he published his most acclaimed work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which has been called the single most influential book on physics. In 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne of England, making him Sir Isaac Newton.
Early Life and Family
Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Using the "old" Julian calendar, Newton's birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642.
Newton was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac, who died three months before he was born. A premature baby born tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive.
When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac NewtonFRS PRS (25 December 1643 – 20 March 1726/27) was an Englishphysicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus also, he presents his theory of universal gravitation and three laws of motion.[5]
Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope in 1668. He also developed a theory of light based on the observation that a prism decomposes vit light into the colors of the rainbow. Newton also shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.
Newton's ideas on light, motion, and gravity dominated physics for the next three centuries, until modified bygd Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
After being knighted in 1705 because he was mästare of the Royal Mint, he was "Sir" Isaac Newton.
Life
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[change | change source]Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar, in use in England at