Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. He lost his father three months before his birth. After Newton turned three, his mother remarried, leaving him under the care of his maternal grandmother. ...
Isaac Newton's early life Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day to a poor farming family in Woolsthorpe, England, in 1642. At the time of Newton's birth England used the Julian calendar, however, when England adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, his birthday became 4th January 1643. ...
One hundred and thirty years had elapsed since the death of the great Newton, when (in 1858) the men of Lincolnshire raised in Grantham, the birthplace of their illustrious townsman, a statue to his memory. We grow impatient to place the effigies of a great soldier upon some lofty column,...
View of Sir Isaac N11wton's Philosophy", which was published by subscription ; the subscribers numbered some 2,400, including peers of the realm, most of the bishops, and other notables including Alexander Pope and Edward Gibbon, a remarkable tribute to the esteem in which Newton was held....
became president of the Royal Society, succeeding physicist and mathematicianSir Isaac Newton; he held the position until 1741. Sloane earned a reputation as a specialist ineye diseases, and he eventually publishedAccount of a Medicine for Soreness, Weakness and Other Distempers of the Eyes(1745)...