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Newton's mother wanted him to become this...
What is farmer
100
It is said that Newton discovered the idea of gravity when this iconic moment happened in his life.
What is seeing an apple fall from a tree.
100
This made Newton return home from school between 1665 and 1667.
What is The Plague
100
What is the The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
What is a book
100
Newton was how old when he passed?
What is 85
200
Isaac Newton was born into a family who lived where?
What is England
200
In 1696 Newton was appointed this position at he Royal Mint, which he took very seriously.
What is warden
200
This is the name of the school that young Isaac attended.
What is King’s School of Grantham
200
Who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Who is Thomas S. Kuhn.
200
What is the name of Newton's home town?
What is Woolsthorpe Manor
300
Finish this statement. As a child, Newton was born_________.
What is premature.
300
Newton wrote this book and it has been called the single most influential book on physics.
What is Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
300
Newton's actual course of study in school was in what subject?
What is law.
300
The Structure of Scientific Revolution argues that Aristotle and Newtons' concepts were__________.
What is not bad, just different.
300
Isaac Newton supposedly suffered two of these.
What is nervous breakdown
400
Newton's mother passed in what year?
What is 1678
400
What coin mint standard did Newton achieve in moving for the better?
What is silver to gold
400
He was elected this_____________ for his University in 1700, but only held this post for a year.
What is Member of Parliament
400
Finish this famous quotes form The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. "Doing research is essentially like __________________."
What is solving a puzzle.
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What year did Newton pass away?
What is 1727
500
Who set Newton's laboratory on fire ruining twenty years of research?
Who is his dog.
500
Isaac Newton become known in the scientific community through his __________________ telescope – a big improvement on existing telescopes.
What is refractive
500
Name two of the four areas of study that Newton continued through out life.
What are mathematics, optics, astronomy and alchemy.
500
Where did the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, attend college?
What is Harvard.
500
Isaac Newton was an acquaintance of this famous political philosopher.
Who is John Locke