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Isaac Newton
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Sir Isaac Newton(25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727)
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Isaac Newton
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VOCABULARY
Formulated Create or prepare methodically.
Trajectory The path that a moving object follows through space as a function of time.
Empirical Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
Biblical Relating to or contained in the bible.
Alchemy The definition of alchemy is a type of science and philosophy from the middle ages which attempted to perform successful experiments of the unusual, such as trying to make gold from metals.
Isaac Newton
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Place: Westminster Abbey
Residence: England
Nationality: English (later British)
Fields: Physics Natural philosophy
Mathematics Astronomy
Alchemy Christian theology
Economics
Institutions: University of Cambridge
Royal Society
Royal Mint
Isaac Newton
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Alma mater: Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic
Advisors: Isaac Barrow[2]
Benjamin Pulleyn
Notable
Students: Roger Cotes
William Whiston
Known for: Newtonian mechanics
Universal gravitation
Calculus
Optics Binomial series
Principia Newton's method
Isaac Newton
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ISAAC NEWTON INVENTIONS
Newton drew up his first design in 1670 but did not receive scientific acclaim for it until he published his ideas more fully in 1700 in his treatise Optics . What made Newton's telescope unique to seventeenth-century astronomers was his abandonment of a glass lens through which light passed to focus and form an image,
Isaac Newton
© 2015 albert-learning.com
Isaac Newton
© 2015 albert-learning.com