Past Simple (Sir Isaac Newton, Review)

Complete the text with the past simple form of the verbs in the box.


Sir Isaac Newton




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Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. He was born in the same year that Galileo ________. Newton is probably the most important scientists in history. His work on mathematics and physics _________ a 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 stars, and the planets around the Sun. He also ________ and built 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.

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