| Sir Isaac Newton FRS | … |
|---|---|
| Portrait of Isaac Newton, 1689 | … |
| Born | 4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642]12 Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 31 March 1727 (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1727]1 Kensington, Middlesex, England |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1665; MA, 1668)3 |
| Known for | Newtonian mechanics universal gravitation calculus More • Newton’s laws of motion • optics • binomial series • Principia • Newton’s method • Newton’s law of cooling • Newton’s identities • Newton’s metal • Newton line • Newton–Gauss line • Newtonian fluid • Newton’s rings • Standing on the shoulders of giants • List of all other works and concepts |
| Political party | Whig |
| Awards | • FRS (1672) 4 • Knight Bachelor (1705) |
| Scientific career | … |
| Fields | • Physics • natural philosophy • alchemy • theology • mathematics • astronomy • economics |
| Institutions | • University of Cambridge • Royal Society • Royal Mint |
| Academic advisors | • Isaac Barrow 5 • Benjamin Pulleyn 6 |
| Notable students | • Roger Cotes • William Whiston |
| Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge | … |
| In office 1689–1690Serving with Henry Boyle | … |
| Preceded by | Robert Brady |
| Succeeded by | Edward Finch |
| In office 1701–1702Serving with Henry Boyle | … |
| Preceded by | Anthony Hammond |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey |
| 12th President of the Royal Society | … |
| In office 1703–1727 | … |
| Preceded by | John Somers |
| Succeeded by | Hans Sloane |
| Master of the Mint | … |
| In office 1699–1727 | … |
| 1696–1699 | Warden of the Mint |
| Preceded by | Thomas Neale |
| Succeeded by | John Conduitt |
| 2nd Lucasian Professor of Mathematics | … |
| In office 1669–1702 | … |
| Preceded by | Isaac Barrow |
| Succeeded by | William Whiston |
| Signature | … |
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Footnotes
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Gleick, James (2007). Isaac Newton. Westminster: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-307-42643-7. ↩ ↩2
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Iliffe & Smith 2016, p. 4–5, 30. ↩
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Kevin C. Knox, Richard Noakes (eds.), From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 61. ↩
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“Fellows of the Royal Society”. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. ↩
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Feingold, Mordechai. Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677) Archived 29 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2009; explained further in Feingold, Mordechai (1993). “Newton, Leibniz, and Barrow Too: An Attempt at a Reinterpretation”. Isis. 84 (2): 310–338. Bibcode:1993Isis…84..310F. doi:10.1086/356464. JSTOR 236236. ↩
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“Dictionary of Scientific Biography”. Notes, No. 4. Archived from the original on 25 February 2005. ↩