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December 25, 1642: Birth of Isaac Newton in Woolsthorpe, England. January 1646: Hannah Newton remarries and moves away, leaving her son to be raised by an uncle. ... 1653: Death of Hannahs second husband; she returns to live with Isaac, bringing three children with her from her second marriage. 1654: Newton enrolls in the Grantham Grammar School. ... 1661: Newton enrolls in Trinity College, Cambridge. ... 1665: Newton receives his bachelor of arts from Trinity College. ... Outbreak of plague drives Newton to retire to his mothers home in Woolsthorpe. Newton conducts prism experiments, discovers spectrum of light; works out his system of "fluxions," precursor of modern calculus; begins to consider the idea of gravity. 1669: Newton appointed Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Trinity, a position he will hold for the next thirty-four years. |
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