Amazon Quiz: This is a statue of Isaac Newton in which famous university, where he himself was a professor?
Options:
Cambridge University
Oxford University
The University of Manchester
Durham University
Answer: Cambridge University
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and novelist. He is regarded as one of the finest mathematicians and physicists of all time as well as one of the most important scientists in history.
Newton was accepted into Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in June 1661. Initially employed as a subsizar at Cambridge, Newton supported himself by serving as a valet until he was given a scholarship in 1664, which paid his tuition for the next four years as he finished his MA. He started to build the mathematical theory that would later become calculus in 1665 when he found the generalised binomial theorem.
In August 1665, shortly after Newton graduated from Cambridge with a BA, the university briefly shut down as a preventative measure against the Great Plague. Over the following two years, Newton studied alone at his Woolsthorpe home and developed his theories on calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation. Newton returned to the University of Cambridge in April of that year, and in October he was chosen to join Trinity as a fellow.
Newton founded classical mechanics with his book ‘Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy’, which was initially published in 1687. Based on his discovery that a prism divides white light into the visible spectrum’s colours, Newton constructed the first practical reflecting telescope. His ‘Opticks’, which was published in 1704, contained a collection of his work on light.
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