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En junio de 1661, a los dieciocho años, Newton era alumno del Trinity College, y nada en sus estudios anteriores permitía entrever o incluso esperar la deslumbrante carrera científica del fundador de la mecánica y la óptica.
Recibió su título de bachiller en 1665 y le nombraron becario en Trinity College en 1667 (entre 1665 y 1667 la Universidad de Cambridge se cerró por la peste y Newton regresó a Woolsthorpe). Desde 1668 fue profesor.
Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. Developing Isaac Barrow’s work he laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known.
6 de ene. de 2022 · The discovery of a manuscript notebook, lost for almost three hundred years, containing letters to John Wickins from his 'ever-loving Chamberfellow' Isaac Newton, sheds light on Newton's career at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1670s.
Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He was a devout but unorthodox Christian who privately rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. He refused to take holy orders in the Church of England, unlike most members of the Cambridge faculty of the day.
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any Oxbridge college.
In 1667, Newton became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, making necessary his commitment to taking Holy Orders within seven years of completing his MA, which he did the following year. He was also required to take a vow of celibacy and recognize the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. [12]
