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| | Isaac Newton |
 | | Newton tasted the excitement of London life in the aftermath of the Principia. | | | Deprived of a father before birth, he soon lost his mother as well, for within two years she married a second time; her husband, the well-to-do minister Barnabas Smith, left young Isaac with his grandmother and moved to a neighbouring village to raise a son and two daughters. | | | After his mother was widowed a second time, she determined that her first-born son should manage her now considerable property. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/newton.html
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| | BBC - History - Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) |
| | Newton was ecstatic, despite his pretence of indifference, and in return sent them his theory of colours in a letter. | | | His work with colours led him to believe that refracting telescopes, which were subject to colour interference, were outdated. | | | The plague was to stay in Cambridge for two years, and the university only opened again in the spring of 1667. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml
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| | MSN Encarta - Isaac Newton |
| | He sent one similar to his original model, and the Society established Newton’s dominance in the field by publishing a description of the instrument. | | | While at school he lived at the house of a pharmacist named Clark, from whom he may have acquired his lifelong interest in chemical operations. | | | Six months later he received a major fellowship and shortly thereafter was named Master of Arts. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573959
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| | The Life and Work of Isaac Newton at a Glance |
| | Newton remains in Woolsthorpe for most of the year settling the family's affairs. | | | Probably in about this year, Newton composes (but does not publish) the essay 'Praxis', the most substantial of his own (al)chemical compositions. | | | Publication of The Cambridge Case, an anonymous account of the Sidney Sussex affair (probably not Newton's composition though he may well have had a hand in it). |
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http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk/bio.html
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| | Isaac Newton (1642-1727) - By Miles Hodges |
| | Three years later his mother remarried, left young Isaac in the care of his grandmother, and moved away to join her new husband. | | | Newton considered himself a deeply devout Christian--though not of the normal sort. | | | When he was in his early teens, his mother became a widow for the second time and returned to Woolsthorpe. |
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http://www.newgenevacenter.org/biography/newton2.htm
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| | HOS: Newton |
| | Newton, who had already obtained the same results without publishing them, saw their value better than anyone else, as shown in his letter of July 3, 1673, to Oldenburg: "I am glad we are to expect another discours of the | | | Delambre."Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. le comte J. Lagrange," in | | | See Leibniz's letter of Feb. 10, 1711, to Hartsoeker in |
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http://www.rit.edu/~flwstv/newton.html
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| | Isaac Newton |
| | Newton wasn't a very mature guy and was petty and childish in his reaction to others, especially criticism. | | | Once upon a time, in a place that no one has ever heard of --- Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England --- a tiny lump of flesh entered the world. | | | Newton was respected in his lifetime as almost no other scientist before or after. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3550/newtonzi.htm
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| | Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) |
| | Newton communicated these results to his friends and pupils from and after 1669, but they were not published in print till many years later. | | | His hair turned grey before he was thirty, and remained thick and white as silver till his death. | | | On his return to Cambridge in 1667 Newton was elected to a fellowship at his college, and permanently took up his residence there. |
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http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html
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| | Sir Isaac Newton (1642/3–1727): |
| | Now the scientists realized what a friendly and considerate person he was and they rallied to his aid. | | | Let us trust his skill and thank him for the prescription.’ | | | Isaac was taken out of school to run the family farm to support his mother and her three younger children. |
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http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v12/i3/newton.asp
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| | Isaac Newton's Life |
| | His last decades were passed in revising his major works, polishing his studies of ancient history, and defending himself against critics, as well as carrying out his official duties. | | | Newton had already described some of his mathematical discoveries to Leibniz, not including his method of fluxions. | | | Meanwhile, in 1696 he had moved to London as Warden of the Royal Mint. |
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http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html
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| | Isaac Newton |
| | Newton immediately wrote a treatise, De Analysi, expounding his own wider ranging results. | | | This was envisioned by Newton in the Principia. | | | This brought his work to the attention of the mathematics community for the first time. |
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http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/newton.html
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| | Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 |
| | Newton's Life, Career and Work (Robert Hatch, UFlorida) | | | An unlikable and unapproachable man, Newton worked in solitude in his rooms at Cambridge. | | | Although he devoted equal amounts of time to his studies in theology, optics, and alchemy, it was his work on gravity which earned him his place in the canon of western scientific genius. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/newton.html
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| | Sir Isaac Newton and the Unification of Physics & Astronomy |
| | The poet Alexander Pope was moved to pen the lines | | | Further, they were purely empirical: they worked, but no one knew a fundamental reason WHY they should work. | | | In fact, Newton went even further: he showed that Kepler's Laws of planetary motion were only approximately correct, and supplied the quantitative corrections that with careful observations proved to be valid. |
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http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton.html
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| | Newton, Sir Isaac. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Newton was his university& representative in Parliament (1689–90, 1701–2) and was president of the Royal Society from 1703 until his death. | | | Newton’s discoveries in optics were presented in his Opticks (1704), in which he elaborated his theory that light is composed of corpuscles, or particles. | | | Among his other accomplishments were his construction (1668) of a reflecting telescope and his anticipation of the calculus of variations, founded by Gottfried Leibniz and the Bernoullis. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ne/Newton-S.html
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| | Isaac Newton - Metaweb |
| | Newton's first partner may have been his 20-year roommate John Wickens during his student and professor years at Cambridge. | | | Newton and his follower Edmond Halley, the discoverer of the comet that bears his name, then savaged the astronomer's work, criticising the errors that had resulted from their haste to see it published." | | | These experiments culminate in his letter of February 6, 1672 to the Royal Society of London, which outlines his discovery of the properties of light rays. |
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http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Isaac_Newton
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| | Sir Isaac Newton Scientist and Mathematician |
| | Newton published his works in two books, namely "Opticks" and "Principia." | | | Follows Newton's life from his childhood through his years as the master of England's financial system, covering all his astonishing achievements in between. | | | During this period he produced the bulk of his work on mathematics. |
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http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html
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| | Newton's greatest achievement was his work in physics and celestial mechanics, which culminated in the theory of universal gravitation. | | | Newton's initial lectures as Lucasian Professor dealt with optics, including his remarkable discoveries made during the plague years. | | | Three years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. |
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http://www.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xnewton.html
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| | Isaac Newton Theology, Prophecy, Science and Religion |
| | The Newton Project was founded in 1998 and is based at Imperial College, London and the University of Cambridge. | | | This essay, forthcoming in 2003, is the first full-length study of Newton's disbelief in a personal devil and ontologically real demons | | | This essay, published by Ashgate in 2004, shows ways in which Newton's heretical theology interacted with his natural philosophy (science) |
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http://www.isaac-newton.org
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| | Bible Code Digest.com - Isaac Newton Page |
| | Newton's writings reflected his belief that his scientific work was a method by which to reinforce belief in biblical truth. | | | Keynes believed that Newton’s writings showed him to be rather eccentric in his Christian theology. | | | Born on Christmas day in 1642, the same year that the tragic figure Galileo died, Newton discovered the binomial theorem, the method of fluxions (calculus), the law of gravitation and the composite nature of light—all before the age of 30. |
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http://www.biblecodedigest.com/page.php/74
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Isaac Newton |
| | Born in Lincolnshire, Newton was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, and became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the university. | | | In 1704 Newton published Opticks, which explained his theories in detail. | | | In 1696 he moved to London, where he supervised the Royal Mint and, in 1703, became president of the Royal Society. |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/isaacnewton.html
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| | The Chymistry of Isaac Newton: Home |
| | Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject of alchemy, of which only a tiny fraction has today been published. | | | Yet there is another, more mysterious side to Newton that is imperfectly known, a realm of activity that spanned some thirty years of his life, although he kept it largely hidden from his contemporaries and colleagues. | | | Newton's alchemical manuscripts include a rich and diverse set of document types, including laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances and operations, Newton's transcriptions from other sources, and even poetry. |
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http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/index.jsp
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| | Sir Isaac Newton -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Isaac Newton, portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689. | | | He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–82), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal. | | | This law states that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108764
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| | Isaac Newton the Alchemist. |
| | Sir Isaac Newton, the famous seventeenth-century mathematician and scientist, though not generally known as an alchemist, practiced the art with a passion. | | | Sir Arthur Eddington, in reviewing this book, says: "The science in which Newton seems to have been chiefly interested, and on which he spent most of his time was alchemy. | | | It is also becoming obvious that the inspiration for Newton's laws of light and theory of gravity came from his alchemical work. |
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http://www.alchemylab.com/isaac_newton.htm
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| | Isaac Newton Links |
| | Issac Newton Exhibition at Cambridge University Library entitled Footprints of the Lion running until 23 March 2002. | | | Trinity College contains about five portraits of Newton, and the famous statue by Roubiliac can be seen in the Chapel. | | | It also contains two busts of Newton (including one by Roubiliac), a display of Newton memorabilia (including walking sticks, watches, mathematical instruments and a lock of hair) and a stained glass window by Cipriani (1771) depicting an alegorical scene in which Newton is presented to George III. |
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| | Sir Isaac Newton |
| | Sir Isaac Newton: Later Work - Later Work Newton's discoveries in optics were presented in his Opticks (1704), in which he... | | | Sir Isaac Newton: Later Life - Later Life Newton was his university's representative in Parliament (1689–90, 1701–2)... | | | Sir Isaac Newton: The Principia - The Principia Newton summarized his discoveries in terrestrial and celestial mechanics in his... |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0835490.html
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| | Isaac Newton in the Electronic Passport. |
| | A legend says he made his discovery as he saw an apple fall from a tree. | | | Newton once said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Newton meant that he was able to make his great discoveries because of the many people who made discoveries before him. | | | Isaac Newton was a great English scientist who was the first to explain the laws of gravity. |
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| | His mother remarried when he was just three, and he was then sent to live with his grandparents. | | | Born prematurely and after his fatherís death, Newton had a difficult childhood. | | | When still in his mid-twenties, he was named Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridgeóthe post now held by Stephen Hawking. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cosmostar/html/cstars_newt.html
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| | Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation |
| | There is a popular story that Newton was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation. | | | By such reasoning, Newton came to the conclusion that any two objects in the Universe exert gravitational attraction on each other, with the force having a universal form: | | | As in all such legends, this is almost certainly not true in its details, but the story contains elements of what actually happened. |
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http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
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| | Isaac Newton - ZoomAstronomy.com |
| | Newton also developed a reflecting telescope (it used mirrors to solve the problem of chromatic aberration, in which the light from stars was surrounded by a spectrum of colors as the components of white light came into focus at different places within the telescope). | | | Newton's Law of Gravitation (formulated in 1666) describes the gravitational attraction between objects; the force of their gravitational attraction (F) depends only on their masses and the distance between them, according to the formula | | | He also investigated the nature of light, discovering that sunlight is made of light of different colors; the spectrum is, in order from long to short wavelength: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/Newton.shtml
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| | Newton summary |
| | Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. | | | R J Wilson (A Gresham lecture - also available as a Video version) | | | He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html
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| | Great Books Index - Isaac Newton |
| | -- Extract of a small part of Newton's Principia. | | | -- A good collection of links to Newton material. |
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http://books.mirror.org/gb.newton.html
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| | ING: Isaac Newton Telescope |
| | The Isaac Newton Telescope has a 2.54-metre primary mirror with a focal ratio of f/2.94. | | | It uses a polar-disc/fork type of equatorial mount. |
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