Biography of Sir Isaac Newton

Why is Newton regarded as the most original and most influential theorist in the history of Science?

• His passion to unite knowledge and belief

• His transformation of the structure of Physical Science

• His precise prediction of planetary and stary motions

• He is a founding exemplar of modern Physical Science

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Sir Isaac Newton initially entered Cambridge University on obtaining what degree?

• Physics

• Celestial Mechanics

• Knighthood

• Law

Cambridge University at the time of Newton was dominated by the philosophy of ____________________

• Descartes

• Gassendi

• Hobbes

• Aristotle

The reason why in 1665 Cambridge University was forced to close

• plague epidemic

• Isaac Newton left

• discovery of gravity

• Newton becoming Lucasian Professor

Sir Isaac Newton's birth place and hometown

• Cambridge

• Woolstorpe

• Westminster Abbey

• Perimeter Institute

Newton's greatest achievement

• Reflecting telescope

• Theory of Universal Gravitation

• Publication of Opticks and Principia

• Being the first scientist to be knighted

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The greatest scientific book ever written by Newton

• Optics

• Opticks

• Prinsipia

• Principia

Year Sir Isaac Newton was knighted

• 1705

• 1667

• 1642

• 300

The first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey

• Descartes

• Hobbes

• Newton

• Boyle

Year the article "A Brief Biography of Sir Isaac Newton" was published on Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

• 1998

• 2000

• 2010

• 2019