Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton died MARCH 20, 1727. With his mother widowed twice, he had
been raised by his grandmother before being sent off to grammar school and later
Cambridge. Newton discovered calculus, the laws of gravity and built the first
reflecting telescope. Using a prism, Newton demonstrated that a beam of light
contained all the colors of the rainbow. President of the Royal Society from
1703 till his death, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in Principia, 1687: "This most
beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the
counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being...All variety of created objects
which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful
reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the Lord God." In Optics, 1704,
Newton wrote: "God in the beginning formed matter." Regarding the Bible, Newton
wrote: "The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of
the universe, concealed from common observation yet the labors of the centuries
have established its Divine origin." In A Short Scheme of the True Religion, Sir
Isaac Newton wrote: "Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never
had many professors."

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