Isaac Newton - Quick facts

Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 [ 25 December 1642]at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire.

Newton was a devout Christian, but he supported Arianism in his later years.

At the age of 12, Newton attended The King’s School in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1654.

Sir Isaac Newton developed the generalized binomial theorem in 1665.

In 1704, Newton wrote a manuscript, which contained different scientific notes derived from the Holy Bible. One of his most fascinating observations in the manuscript was a prediction that Earth will end in 2060!

The story of a falling apple that inspired Newton’s theory of gravitation is actually popularized by the famous author Voltaire.

Newton's discoveries about light and movement of planets were used to make the first flights to the moon possible.

Newton practiced Alchemy. Alchemy is an ancient practice banned in England in 1404.

Newton was elected as a member of parliment. His membership lasted only a year.

Newton oversaw the recoinage of the whole country.

Isaac was born early. He was so small he could have put him in a quart jug.

Isaac Newtons Writings -

Method of Fluxions

Of Natures Obvious Laws & Processes in Vegetation

De Motu Corporum in Gyrum

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Opticks

Reports as Master of the Mint

Arithmetica Universalis

The System of the World, Optical Lectures

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms

De mundi systemate

Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John

An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture