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  2. Later life of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Newton got his appointment because of his renown as a scientist and because he supported the winning side in the Glorious Revolution. [13] [14]At some time Locke nearly succeeded in procuring Newton an appointment as provost of King's College, Cambridge, but the college had offered a successful resistance on the grounds that the appointment would be illegal; its statutes required that the ...

  3. An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture

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    Ebenezer Henderson The Great Mystery of Godliness Incontrovertible; or, Sir Isaac Newton and the Socinians foiled in the attempt to prove a corruption in the text, 1 Tim. III. 16, [theòs ephanerōthē en sarki]: containing a review of the charges brought against the passage; an examination of the various readings; and a confirmation of that in ...

  4. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Religious views of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Newton was born into an Anglican family three months after the death of his father, a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. When Newton was three, his mother married the rector of the neighbouring parish of North Witham and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. [9]

  6. Isaac Newton's religious views on the historicist approach are in the work published in 1733, after his death, Observations upon the Prophesies of the Book of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. [22] It took a stance toward the papacy similar to that of the early Protestant reformers.

  7. Priest of Nature - Wikipedia

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    Newton had a lifelong interest in theology, especially prophecies in the Book of Revelation. [4] The book shows that in one of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ' s appendices, General Scholium, Newton argued that the "divine mode of being" was unknown, an argument that threatened the traditional theological concept of incarnation. [4]

  8. Newton-Hooke priority controversy for the inverse square law

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    Hooke's correspondence with Newton during 1679–1680 not only mentioned this inverse square supposition for the decline of attraction with increasing distance, but also, in Hooke's opening letter to Newton, of 24 November 1679, an approach of "compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive ...

  9. Early life of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    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 ...