The Life of Isaac Newton.

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  • The Life of Isaac Newton.

    ·Birth of Isaac Newton in Woolsthorpe, England

  • Isaac´s mother remmarries

    Hannah Newton remarries and moves away, leaving her son to be raised by his uncle. 

  • Isaac´s mother returns to Isaac

    1653: ·Death of Hannah's second husband; she returns to live with Isaac, bringing three children with her from her second marriage.  ​
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  • Isaac enrolls in a college

    Newton enrolls in Trinity College, Cambridge. December 25,

  • Isaac gets degree from College

    Newton receives his bachelor of arts from Trinity College 

  • Isaac goes back to his mothers home and conducts prism expirements

    Fire in London. Outbreak of plague drives Newton to retire to his mother's home in Woolsthorpe. Newton conducts prism experiments, discovers spectrum of light; works out his system of "fluxions," precursor of modern calculus; begins to consider the ideaof gravity
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  • His optics paper is sent to rhe Society, beginning rivalry with Hooke

    Newton's paper on optics and his prism experiments sent to the Society. Rivalry with Hooke begins. 

  • Isaac´s mother passes away

     1679: ·Death of Hannah Newton 

  • Newton shares his calculations on gravity

    Newton completes his calculations on gravity and shares them with Halley, who urges him to publish. 
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  • Death of Isaac Newton

    March 20, 1727: ·Death of Sir Isaac Newton, in London. 
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