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Isaac Newton is born in Woolsthorpe, England
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his mother leaves him for her new husband Barnabas Smith
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At the age of 12 Newton's mother decides to come back and pull him out of King's School, Grantham, England where he had found his love for chemistry
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His uncle persuades Newton's mother to enroll him at Trinity College at Cambridge
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Certain Philosophical Questions"..reveal that Newton had discovered the new conception of nature that provided the framework for the scientific revolution.
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Newton is forced to go home to his private studies and begins and 18 month period of learning.
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Part of his study in optics was aided with the use of a reflecting telescope which he created
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Elected Lucasian professor of Mathematics
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Gives the first of his Optical lectures
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Newton is elected to the Royal Society
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publishes his letter on Light & Colors
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Royal Society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope and their interest encouraged him to publish his notes On Colour in 1672, which he later revised to Book One of Opticks.
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Newton begins to observe the Comet of 1680-81 he writes Geometria curvilinea.
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Newton observes Halleys Comet
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Halley goes to inquire Newton about the path of a planet moving in relation to an inverse-square
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Principia licensed by Samuel Pepys, President of Royal Society.
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his theory of light and color, and gained significant insight into the laws of planetary motion.
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Newton represents Cambridge
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Newton is elected president of Royal Society
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This begins the feud with Leibniz
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in the feud between Leibniz and Newton the Society sides with Newton on the foundation of Calculus.
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The second edition is published
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Third edition of Principia is published with no reference to Leibniz
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Isaac Newton dies