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Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [26] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...
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Isaac Newton : Date: 1689 ... is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 ...
Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Enoch Seeman, c. 1726, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in (76 x 63.5 cm) Date: circa 1726 ... Later life of Isaac Newton; Global file usage.
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Two of these are The Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project [12] supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and The Newton Project [13] supported by the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Board. In addition, The Jewish National and University Library has published a number of high-quality scanned images of various Newton documents. [14]