3. Background
• Date of birth: January 4, 1643,
• Place of birth: Wools Thorpe Manor, UK
• Education: The King’s School (1655–1659), Trinity College (1661–
1665), Trinity College (rejoin) (1667–1668)
• Family: Mother, Step-Father, no wife, no kids
• Resting place: Westminster Abbey, London, UK
• Death: March 31, 1727 due to natural causes
4. Early years
Isaac Newton was born in 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father was a wealthy,
uneducatedfarmer who died three months before Newton was born. Newton's mother
remarried and hewas left in the care of his grandmother. He attendedFree Grammar
school. Though Newton did not excel in school, he did earn the opportunity to attend
TrinityCollege Cambridge where he wanted to study law. His mother refused to pay for
his educationso while at college he worked as a servant to pay his way. Newton also
kept a journal where he was able to express his ideas on various topics. He became
interested in mathematicsafter buying a book at a fair and not understandingthe math
concepts it contained. Newton graduatedwith a bachelorsdegree in 1665. The further
pursuit of an education was interrupted bythe plague. Trinity Collegewas closed due to
the highly contagious, deadly disease. Newton went home. It was during this time that
Newton started to pursue his own ideas on math, physics, optics and astronomy. By
1666 he had completedhis early work on his three laws of motion. The university
reopened andNewton took a fellowship in order to obtainhis masters degree.
5. Family
• Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also
named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was
born. Upon the death of his stepfather in 1653, Newton lived in an
extended family consisting of his mother, his grandmother, one half-brother, and
two half-sisters. It is rumored that he disliked his mother because she re-married
and moved away. Newton never got married or had any kids, he dedicated his life
for his career and interests in Physics.
6. k
• He invented the calculus
• He formulated the theory of universal gravity
• He invented reflecting lenses for telescopes,
• He developed anti-counterfeiting measures for coins
• He explored optics, experimenting with prisms and investigating light.
• He studied the nature of white light
• He invented versions of his three laws of motion
• He had also discovered the law giving the centrifugal force on a body moving uniformly
in a circular path.
Acheievments
7. Top writtenbooks
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
• Opticks (1704)
• Arithmetica Universalis (1707)
• De mundi systemate (1728)
• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
(1728)
• The preliminary manuscripts for Isaac Newton's 1687
Principia, 1684-1685 (1687)
8. .
• Newton had a bad relationship with his step-father, he didn’t like his step-father.
• He didn’t like politics, despite the fact he was a member of the parliament.
• He could speak English, Latin and Greek.
• He was estimated to have an IQ of 193
• His biological father who died three months before his death had the same exact name as Isaac
Newton himself.
• He anxiously obsessed over his published work, defending its merits with irrational behavior.
• Due to a rough childhood without the presence of his mother he developed physcological problems
• Late in life, Newton suffered a nervous breakdown and became known for rather eccentric behavior.
• Growing up he had a shuttering problem.
More about Isaac Newton’s life
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Over the years of phenomenal hard work, Newton
recieved many awards that were a remark of his
hard work, like:
FRS (1672)
Knight bachelor (1705)
He got a seat in Parliament and burial in Westminster
Abbey.
He also received several unlisted awards and honors
Awards
10. Famousquotes
• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
• If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
-Isaac Newton
11. 1642: Isaac Newton
is born
1653: Newton
attends King's
School in Grantham
(About 1653)
1653: Newton
shows his interest
and creativity in
arts.
1661: Newton
enrolls at
Cambridge
University.
1665: Newton
receives a
bachelor's of arts
degree.
1666: Newton
returns to
Woolsthorpe (due to
plague)
1667: Newton
returns to
Cambridge.
1671: Newton joins
the Royal Society of
London.
1687: Newton
publishes his major
work, Principia.
1689: Newton is
elected to
Parliament.
1693: Newton gets
sick. (mercury
poisoning)
1696: Newton is
appointed Warden
of the Mint.
1703:Newton
becomes president
of the Royal
Society.
1705: Newton is
knighted.
March 20, 1727:
Newton dies.
Timeline of Newton’s life