Isaac Newton

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Who was he inspired by?

  • Descartes and Huggens

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What did he publish in 1687?

  • Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which presented his theory of gravitation

  • It demonstrated that Kepler’s laws of planetary motion could be proven mathematically

  • He also proposed his three laws of motion

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What happened to him in 1703?

  • He became the president of the Royal Society

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What happened to him in 1669

  • he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1669

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What happened to him in 1696?

  • He became warden of the Royal Mint

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What did he still believe in?

  • arcane knowledge and the power of magic - in early drafts of Principa Mathematica he speculates gravity may be the result of magic

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What was his work a result of?

  • Advances in mathematics, astronomy, and physics that had been made before him

  • His work represents the final stage of a long process of theory and discovery over 100 years