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1704 -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) publishes the first edition of his Opticks, based on work done during his days a Cambridge, including a series of speculations about nature and natural philosophy under enumerated as "Queries".
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1705 -- The comet that now bears Edmond Halley's name (which he observed in 1682) is determined by him to have an elongated elliptical orbit, and therefore argued it should submit to Newtonian principles.
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April 16, Newton is Knighted by Queen Anne in Cambridge, thereafter, he is known as Sir Isaac Newton.
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1706 -- Publication of the first Latin edition of Newton's Opticks with its Queries
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1712 -- Publication of John Flamsteed's Historia coelestis Britannica, which contains positions for some 3000 stars, more than three times that of Tycho's catalogue.
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1713 -- William Derham's (1657-1735) Physico-theology, and the second revised edition of Newton's Principia (containing an introduction by Roger Cotes) suggest a movement to use the findings of science as evidence for 'Design' and hence as evidence for the 'Designer'.
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1715 -- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz sends objections to Newton's philosophy to the Princess of Wales which sparks controversy between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, Newton's representative, on the issue of God's relation to a mechanical universe .
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1717 -- Newton publishes second English edition of Opticks with eight queries
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1725 -- May 27 - Newton refuses to grant publication of Short Chronology but publishes it later that year. Newton suffers inflammation of his lungs and moves to Kensington, South London.
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1727 -- March 18 - Newton's health fails, he collapses and borders on death; shortly thereafter, Newton dies at Kensington between 1.00 and 2.00am. On 28 March his body lays in state in Westminster Abbey where he is buried on 4 April.