Life and Times of Sir Isaac Newton

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he went to school, he began to attend Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and a Lucasian mathematics professor in 1669. He stayed at the university, lecturing most of the years, until 1696. During these Cambridge years, in which Newton was at the top of his creative …

…th century, when the first Council of Nicaea proposed false documents of the nature of Christ. The full extent of Newton's nonconformism was seen only in the present: but although a critic of accepted Trinitarian writings and the Council of Nicaea, he had a deep religious sense, venerated the Bible and believed its account of creation. In late pieces of his works he expressed a good sense of God's role in nature. Bibliography N/A