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- Newton thought to have been born on Christmas Day
- Newton born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire
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- Newton noticed problem with chromatic aberration
- Newton developed reflecting telescope
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- Development of calculus
- Leibniz published differential calculus
- Leibniz acknowledged as inventor of calculus
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- Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state
of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
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- Newton published Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
- Hooke claimed that Newton had stolen some of his optical results
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- Halley persuaded Newton to write Principia
- The Principia is recognised as the greatest scientific book ever written
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- King James II insist a monk get a degree without examinations or oaths
- Newton, a Protestant, opposed the attack on the University of Cambridge.
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10
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- Proposed reasons for breakdown are chemical poisoning, frustration,
ending of friendship with Fatio de Duillier, and problems resulting from
his religious beliefs
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- Elected president of the Royal Society
- First scientist to be honored for his work with a knighthood
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