Sir Isaac Newton
By: Lauren Smith
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
Newton's Timeline:
Isaac Newton's Time Line
1642
Father died in October, Newton born at Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, on Christmas Day, December 25th
1649
May have attended same dame school in Colsterworth and Skillington as the Storer children
1655
Attended Free Grammar School, Grantham (now known as The King's School, Grantham). Carved his name in the School window ledge. Lodged with the Clarke family including the Storer children, in Grantham
Euclidis Elementa published by Stokes, Newton's tutor at the Free Grammar School
1661
Went to Trinity College, Cambridge
1665
Graduated as Bachelor of Arts. August: Returned to Woolsthorpe because of the Plague
Newton's experiments on gravitation; he also evolved Binomial Theorum and discovered Differential Calculus
1666
Saw apple falling from tree at Woolsthorpe Manor
Newton discovered Integral Calculus, and developed Theory of Colours
1667
Returned to Cambridge. Awarded fellowship of Trinity College
1668
Newton constructed reflecting telescope
1669
Appointed Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
1674
Remained at university and researching most years until 1696
1675
Newton experiments on Static Electricity
1679
Newton's mother, Hannah, died of a fever; Newton present at her death
1682
Comet identified by Newton's friend, Arthur Storer, however comet later to be named after Edmund Halley who realised that it returned at regular intervals. Known as Halley's Comet
1687
The Principia published in 3 sections in Latin
1689
Elected M.P. for Cambridge.
1693
Had mental breakdown
1696
Moved to London; became Warden of the Royal Mint
1699
Elected to the Council of the Royal Society. Completed his revision of the country's coinage
1700
Became Master of the Royal Mint, to solve government currency problem
1701
Elected M.P. for Cambridge a 2nd time. Resigned Chair of Mathematics
1703
Elected President of the Royal Society; was to be re-elected President for the remainder of his life
1704
Opticks published
1705
Knighted by Queen Anne at Cambridge; 'Sir Isaac Newton'. Failed to be re-elected to Parliament
1706
Revised edition of Opticks published
1713
Second edition of Principia published
1717
2nd edition of Opticks published
1721
3rd edition of Opticks published
1725
Moved to Kensington; health deteriorating
1726
3rd edition of Principia published
1727
Newton died 20th March. Buried in Westminster Abbey
1729
Principia published in English for the first time