1. Sir Isaac Newton FELIX COGNOSCERE CAUSAS Adrienne Nims

2. FELIX COGNOSCERE CAUSAS
ISAACUS NEWTONUS
FELIX COGNOSCERE CAUSAS
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3. Early Life & Education Born December 25, 1642 1655: Grantham School
Brief interlude: mother’s attempt to involve Newton in management of family estate
1661: Trinity College at Cambridge

4. Life & Career 1667-1668: Fellow of Trinity College
1669: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
1687: Elected member of Parliament for Cambridge
1695, 1700: Warden and later master of the mint
1701: Reelected to Parliament
Died on March 20, 1727

5. Discoveries & Works Optics Mechanics Opticks, 1704
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687

6. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Book I: The Mathematics
Book II: Physical Reality
Book III: The Cosmos
Divine creation and intervention

7. Discussion Consider: The tradition of scholarly writing in Latin
The complexity of the content of the Principia
The lack of complexity of the language
Thoughts?

9. Select Bibliography
Byers, P. K., & Bourgoin, S. M. (2004). Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale.
Hall, A. R. (1992). Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.
----- (1999). Isaac Newton: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hibbin, Sally. (2006). Sir Isaac Newton. In L. Taylor (Ed.), Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century. Hackensack: Salem.
Newton, I. (1871). Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (3rd ed.). Glascow: James MacLehose.
Portrait Medal of Sir Isaac Newton. (2004). Retrieved from