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“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
- SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Sir Isaac Newton
Scientist and Mathematician, 1642 - 1727
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (by the Julian calendar then in use; or January 4, 1643 by the current Gregorian calendar) in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. He was born the same year Galileo died. Newton is clearly the most influential scientist who ever lived. His accomplishments in mathematics, optics, and physics laid the foundations for modern science and revolutionized the world.