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Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727

Isaac Newton PRS of London, Greater London County, England United Kingdom was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe. Isaac was baptized circa January 1643 in Grantham, Lincolnshire County. Isaac Newton died at age 84 years old on March 31, 1727 at Kensington in London, London County, and was buried on April 7, 1727 at Westminster Abbey in London, Greater London County.

Isaac Newton PRS

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London, Greater London County, England United Kingdom

January 4, 1643

Woolsthorpe, England, NG32, United Kingdom

March 31, 1727

Kensington in London, London County, England, United Kingdom

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Introduction

Isaac Newton was a universally attractive man that to this day makes science lovers, fanatical alchemists, and deep-thinking hermeticists gravitate towards his published works. He crafted a vibrant image of himself in many of his self-reflective notes, many of them published posthumously. From his competitive, scholastic desire to constantly improve himself to his love of the dark seclusion of his office, Newton had a very long and prosperous life.
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1643

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January 4, 1643

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Woolsthorpe, England NG32, United Kingdom

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Ethnicity & Family History

His parents and grandparents were completely English. For several ancestral generations all those he descended from hailed from what is now the United Kingdom. There are no reports of him or his immediate family ever temporarily moving outside of England.
Nationality & Locations

Isaac Newton was born and raised in a manor home in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England with only his mother, Hannah Ayscough. She sent him to live with her mother, Margery Ayscough (née Blythe), so that she could start a new family. With the elder Ayscoughs' funds he lived either part-time or full-time in The King's School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England from between twelve and seventeen years of age, then returned there again for more education and to avoid farm labor. He soon graduated. As a young adult he spent his years in the Trinity College of Cambridge University, where he studied Christian theology and semi-advanced mathematics. After graduating, he became a research fellow and a professor of Lucasian mathematics at the same college. He lived in the staff housing nearby, but he spent many hours in lecture halls that were arguably more of his home than his official residence. After retirement from professorhood, he lived in the Greater London area as a member of the Royal Society, a member of British Parliament, and as a warden for the Royal Mint, usually at separate times. He may have lived in other locations, but it is very likely that he remained in London for the entire second half of his life.
Early Life & Education

He was either self-taught or given private education until he entered The King's School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England from (approximately) 1655 to 1660), stayed out of school for a few months because he and his mother had major conflict over his future career, then returned to graduate. Reverend William Ayscough, Newton's maternal uncle, convinced his mother to let him attend Trinity College, Cambridge University from 1661 to 1668. He used his education to discover or rediscover, independently and alongside other mathematicians, countless mathematical concepts.
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circa January 1643
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Grantham, Lincolnshire County, England United Kingdom
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Religious Beliefs

Isaac Newton was born into an Anglican family and existed in an environment intolerant to non-Anglican people. He was greatly spiritual and puritanical, but his theology differed from the Anglican canon. As a closeted non-Anglican Christian, he wrote encrypted letters to his "friends" to discuss their alternative beliefs in hopes of not being caught and persecuted. Despite popular belief, Isaac Newton was never an atheist. For his entire life he spent combing through religious treatises searching for personal truths and he often read these manuscripts under the pretense that his god directly wrote or inspired others to write them. In total, Newton wrote over a million words on parchment with religion as a theme.
Military Service

Isaac Newton never served.
Professional Career

His first job was to work at a small livestock farm in Lincolnshire, England, that his family owned; after neglecting to recapture animals that escaped from the farm because he did not care, his mother disliked his lack of interest in the family profession. Later, Isaac Newton attended Cambridge University under the condition that he would be a valet and a subsizar for his peers so that he could pay tuition. He later became an unordained professor of Lucasian mathematics in Trinity College, Cambridge University, but his students were often disinterested in the subject and he frequently held classes when every student was absent. He was willing to privately tutor a few students after classes and during summers, but it is unclear whether it was for additional pay or for the desire to teach for the sake of knowledge. He moved to London after retirement from work in Cambridge, serving as a warden of the Royal Mint to resolve disputes involving counterfeit currency and clipped coins. After promotion to Master of the Royal Mint, he used the harsh customs associated with high treason to judge and prosecute serial counterfeiters and anyone else he thought to be exploiting money illegally. Throughout his entire life, however, he was a biblical scholar and writer who left behind tens of thousands of pages of his influential works on a variety of sciences, mathematics, pseudosciences, conspiracy theories, religion, etc.
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1727

Death

March 31, 1727

Death date

Old age, possibly methylmercury poisoning

Cause of death

Kensington in London, London County, England United Kingdom
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1727

Gravesite & Burial

April 7, 1727

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Westminster Abbey in London, Greater London County, England SW1H 0ET, United Kingdom
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Inscription of Isaac Newton During an Optics Experiment

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Inscription of Isaac Newton During an Optics Experiment

A colorized inscription of a thirty-to-fifty-year-old Isaac Newton in a dark room. He is drawn to be a foot away from a white, wooden door with a small hole drilled through at about five feet high. He is holding a translucent, refractive object that changes the frequency of light as it passes through.

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Isaac Newton PRS's History: 1643 - 1727

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