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Isaac Newton Is Born
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Life of Isaac Newton
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Newton Returns to Cambridge
, Newton returned to Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Trinity College. Two years later he was appointed second Lucasian professor of mathematics. -
Isaac Newton Invents the Telescope
• It was Newton's reflecting telescope, made in 1668, that finally brought him to the attention -
Royal Socieaty
and in 1672 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society. -
Newton publishe His Greatest Work
• In 1687, with the support of his friend the astronomer Edmond Halley, Newton published his single greatest work, the 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' ('Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'). This showed how a universal force, gravity, applied to all objects in all parts of the universe. -
Published the Opticks
• In 1704, Newton published 'The Opticks' which dealt with light and colour. He also studied and published works on history, theology and alchemy. -
Isaac Newton Dies
