Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Newton
Born :
4 January
1643
Died :
31 March 1727
(aged84)
Residence:
Fields:
England
physics, mathematics,
astronomy,
natural philosophy, alchemy,
Christian theology
Early life
Isaac Newton was born on 4 January
1643
at
Woolsthorpe Manor
in
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in
the county of Lincolnshire. At the time of
Newton's birth, England had not adopted
the Gregorian calendar and therefore his
date of birth was recorded as Christmas
Day, 25 December 1642. Newton was born
three months after the death of his father,
a prosperous farmer also named Isaac
Newton. Born prematurely, he was a small
child;
his
mother
Hannah Ayscough
reportedly said that he could have fit
Middle
years
Newton's
mathematical
work has been said "to
distinctly advance every
branch of mathematics
Mathematics then studied". Newton's
work on the subject usually
referred to as fluxions or
calculus
is
seen,
for
example, in a manuscript
of October 1666, now
published among Newton's
mathematical papers. A
related subject of his
mathematical work was
infinite series.
Optic
From
1670 to 1672,
s
Newton
lectured
on
optics.
During
this
period he investigated
the refraction of light,
demonstrating that a
prism could decompose
white light
into
a
spectrum of colours, and
that a lens and a second
prism could recompose
the
multicoloured
spectrum
into
white
light.[33]
Mechanics and
In 1679, Newton returned
gravitation