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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. El Trinity College tenía fama de ser una institución sumamente recomendable para aquellos que se destinaban a las órdenes.
1642-1727. Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. 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 ...
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 se dedicó al estudio e investigación de los últimos avances en matemáticas y a la filosofía natural.
En Cambridge Finalmente, en junio de 1661, Newton fue admitido en el Trinity College de Cambridge, y se matriculó como fámulo, ganando su manutención a cambio de servicios domésticos, pese a que su situación económica no parece que lo exigiera así.
Newton’s whole academic life, from 1661 to 1696, was spent at Trinity, first as an undergraduate and then as a Fellow from 1667. Isaac Barrow later succeeded Pearson as Master. It was Barrow who persuaded his friend Sir Christopher Wren to design the Wren Library (completed in 1695), the finest of the Trinity buildings.
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.
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669.
