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RE: Sir Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton plaque unveiled in Grantham

A plaque has been unveiled in Grantham to mark where Sir Isaac Newton lodged while at school.
It has been unveiled as part of an eight-day festival to celebrate the life and achievements of the scientist.
Called Gravity Fields, the festival was opened on Friday by Bang Goes The Theory TV presenter Dallas Campbell.
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Israel's national library, an unlikely owner of a vast trove of Sir Isaac Newton's writings, has digitised his theological collection - some 7,500 pages in Newton's own handwriting - and put it online. The Israeli library says the manuscripts help illuminate Newton's science and well as his persona.
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Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 - 31 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."
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Isaac Newton was born on this day in 1643.

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Sir Isaac Newton, an icon of scientific revelation, led a secret life as a scholar of the mysterious art of alchemy. For the last six years, William Newman has been exploring that hidden life and bringing it to light. Newman is Distinguished Professor of history and philosophy of science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
Alchemy, a 17th-century discipline that sought to change metals into gold and discover an elixir of life, among other things, was often called "chymistry" in its time. Newman produces "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton," an interdisciplinary project that provides new research on Newton's chymistry career.
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The Chymistry of Isaac Newton project

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Newton's apple story goes online

The original version of the story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple has been made available online.
Newton recounted the story that inspired his theory of gravitation to scholar William Stukeley.
It then appeared in Stukeley's 1752 biography, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life.
The UK's Royal Society converted the fragile manuscript into an electronic book, which anybody with internet access will now be able to read.
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential scientists in history.
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