Fill in the Blanks BiographyOnline version Use of past simple in biographies. by Marlene Del Valle 1 produced built died studied provided moved was designed changed born used published lived Sir Isaac Newton Issac Newton born on December 25 , 1642 in Woolthorpe , near Grantbam in Lincolnshire , England . He was in the same year that Galileo . Newton is probably the most important scientist in history . His work on mathematics and physics basis for modern science , and his ideas the world . Newton his work in two books , Opticks and Principia . These contain his laws of motion and gravity . He these laws to predict the movements of the starts , and the planets around the sun . He also and the world's first reflecting telescope . Newton at Trinity College , Cambridge , from 1661 to 1696 . In this period he most of his important work . Then , in 1696 , he to London , where he until his death on March 20 , 1727 .