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     Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention,than to any other talent."

Isaac Newton, a mathematician and physicist. One of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Attended Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667 and professor in mathematics in 1669. He remained at the university lecturing for most years until 1696. As a firm opponent of the attempt by King James II to make the universities into Catholic institutions, Newton was elected Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge to the Convention Parliament of 1689, and sat again in 1701-1702. Meanwhile, in 1696 he had moved to London as Warden of the Royal Mint. He became Master of the Mint in 1699, an office he retained to his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1671, and in 1703 he became President, being annually re-elected for the rest of his life. His major work, //Opticks,// appeared the next year; he was knighted in Cambridge in 1705.  "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."



  As Newtonian science became increasingly accepted on the Continent, and especially after a general peace was restored in 1714, following the War of the Spanish Succession, Newton became the most highly esteemed natural philosopher in Europe. His last decades were passed in revising his major works, polishing his studies of ancient history, and defending himself against critics, as well as carrying out his official duties. Newton was modest, diffident, and a man of simple tastes. He was angered by criticism or opposition, and harbored resentment; he was harsh towards enemies but generous to friends. In government, and at the Royal Society, he proved an able administrator. He never married and lived modestly, but was buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey.  "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."   <span style="color: rgb(255, 48, 0);">Newton has been regarded for almost 300 years as the founding exemplar of modern physical science, his achievements in experimental investigation being as innovative as those in mathematical research. With equal, if not greater, energy and originality he also plunged into chemistry, the early history of Western civilization, and theology.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Now that you have read about Isaac Newton, Complete the following **Notebook activity**. You are going to create a acrostic poem on Isaac Newton.


 * Example:**


 * T**remendous
 * U**nderstanding
 * D**aring
 * O**riginal
 * R**oyal
 * S**tupendous

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