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Biography of Sir Isaac Newton

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

His passion to unite knowledge and belief

b)

His transformation of the structure of Physical Science

c)

His precise prediction of planetary and stary motions

d)

He is a founding exemplar of modern Physical Science

2.

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

a)

Physics

b)

Celestial Mechanics

c)

Knighthood

d)

Law

3.

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

a)

Descartes

b)

Gassendi

c)

Hobbes

d)

Aristotle

4.

The reason why in 1665 Cambridge University was forced to close

a)

plague epidemic

b)

Isaac Newton left

c)

discovery of gravity

d)

Newton becoming Lucasian Professor

5.

Sir Isaac Newton's birth place and hometown

a)

Cambridge

b)

Woolstorpe

c)

Westminster Abbey

d)

Perimeter Institute

6.

Newton's greatest achievement

a)

Reflecting telescope

b)

Theory of Universal Gravitation

c)

Publication of Opticks and Principia

d)

Being the first scientist to be knighted

7.

The greatest scientific book ever written by Newton

a)

Optics

b)

Opticks

c)

Prinsipia

d)

Principia

8.

Year Sir Isaac Newton was knighted

a)

1705

b)

1667

c)

1642

d)

300

9.

The first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey

a)

Descartes

b)

Hobbes

c)

Newton

d)

Boyle

10.

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

a)

1998

b)

2000

c)

2010

d)

2019