ISAAC NEWTON

Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in ___________________. Using the "old" Julian calendar, Newton's birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642.

• Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a well-to-do minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Newton with his _________________.

• sister

  
  

• Father

• maternal grandmother

Select the correct definition for "monotonous".

• a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

• Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

When Newton arrived at Cambridge, the ___________________________ was already in full force.

• Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

• maternal grandmother

• unaccredited manuscript

It was during this time that Newton kept a second set of notes, entitled ____________________________ ("Certain Philosophical Questions").

• unaccredited manuscript

• maternal grandmother

• "Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

In 1665, the ________________ that was ravaging Europe had come to Cambridge, forcing the university to close.

• Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

• "Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

• bubonic plague

Newton received his Master of Arts degree in 1669, before he was ___.

• 30

  
  

• 27

• 21

Select the correct definition for "treatise".

• a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

• dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

• "Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

In June 1669, Barrow shared the _______________ with British mathematician John Collins.

• unaccredited manuscript

• book

• newspaper

In August 1669, Barrow identified its author to Collins as "_____________ ... very young ... but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency in these things."

• Mr. Newton

• Mr. Collins

• Mr. Barrow