Happy Newtonmass!

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Today is Isaac Newton's birthday, born this day in 1642 in Grantham England. Grantham England was also the birthplace of Margaret Hilda Thatcher (ne Roberts)

Newton created the first Reflective telescope, he was master of the royal mint and one of the first members of the Royal Society.

 

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Sir Edmund Halley also used Newtons math to predict the successful return of the comet named after him.

 

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He's half of a mathematical controversy that rages to this day!

Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia