Brief Introduction

Birth place and day

Early life

College

Most important work (“Mathematical principals of Natural Philosophy”)

Discoveries

Legacy

Isaac Newton was born on January 4th 1643 at Woolshthorpe, England. Although his father was a
former farmer, he had no interest in becoming in one. When his mother remarried he was 3 years
old and was left in care of his grandparents.

He began to attend college in 1661, at Cambridge. Spending much of his life at Cambridge,
becoming a professor of mathematics and a fellow of the Royal Society. He was even elected to
represent Cambridge University as a member of parliament.

In 1687, Newton published his most important work called Mathematical principals of Natural
Philosophy. In which he described the three laws of motion as well as the law of universal gravity.
This work would go down as one of the most important works in the history of science, because it
defined the principals of modern physics.

Calculus (new type of mathematics), gravity, laws of motion, reflecting telescope.

He died on March 31, 1727 in London, England. Today, he is considered one of the most influential
scientists of all time alongside Einstein, Aristotle, and Galileo.