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Isaac Newton's Life
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Enrolls in Trinity Cambridge
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Newton Recieves his Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College Cambridge
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Moves to his Mother's house do to the Outbreak in plague
While there he conducts prism experiments, discovers spectrum of light; works out his system of fluxions, precursor of modern calculus; begins to consider the idea of gravity. -
Newton appointed Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Trinity,
He held this position for 34 years -
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Worked on the calculations of Gravitation
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Newton was elected to the Royal Society
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Finishes his Calculations on Gravity
Halley urges him to publish it -
Newton elected as Cambridge's representative to Parliament.
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Newton's Black Year
He is plagued by depression and insomnia, and apparently suffers a nervous breakdown. -
Newton appointed warden of the Mint, to oversee the implementation of a new currency.
He leaves Cambridge and moves to London. -
Named master of the Mint
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Newton was elected President of Royal Society
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Publication of Opticks
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Nighted by Queen Anne
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Royal Society commission, under Newton's direction, investigates the competing claims of Leibniz
Newton having developed calculus, and decides in favor of Newton -
Second edition of the Pricipia
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Third edition of the Principia published
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Death of Isaac Newton
