Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

Works of Pascal, Newton, Jacob Bernoulli and Euler became foundational in the emerging field.

In the U. S. at the time other political phrases ( such as " Free Huey " about Black Panther Huey Newton ) became briefly popular as graffiti in limited areas, only to be forgotten.

In 1755 Newton became tide surveyor ( a tax collector ) of the Port of Liverpool, again through the influence of Manesty.

On 29 April 1764 Newton received deacon's orders, and finally became a priest on June 17.

Newton then became one of only two evangelical preachers in the capital, and he soon found himself gaining in popularity amongst the growing evangelical party.

Leaving Congress in 1839, Polk became a candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent Whig, Newton Cannon by about 2, 500 votes, out of about 105, 000.

Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.

Newton taught that scientific theory should be coupled with rigorous experimentation, which became the keystone of modern science.

In a revised conclusion to the Principia ( see General Scholium ), Newton used his expression that became famous, Hypotheses non fingo (" I contrive no hypotheses ").

Here Newton used what became his famous expression ' Hypotheses non fingo ', " I frame no hypotheses ", in response to criticisms of the first edition of the ' Principia '.

Halley's visits to Newton in 1684 thus resulted from Halley's debates about planetary motion with Wren and Hooke, and they seem to have provided Newton with the incentive and spur to develop and write what became Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ).

So it seems that Newton abandoned pursuits to which he was normally dedicated, and did very little else for well over a year and a half, but concentrated on developing and writing what became his great work.

In Hooke's time, the Royal Society met at Gresham College, but within a few months of Hooke's death Newton became the Society's president and plans were laid for a new meeting place.

By 1692, de Moivre became friends with Edmond Halley and soon after with Isaac Newton himself.

Then on March 1, 1856, that St. Louis County became Lake County, and Newton County was renamed St. Louis County and had that eastern area added to it ; it was also expanded westward by incorporating parts of Itasca County, which then also included most of Carlton County.

Before one year passed the size of the County was diminished through the separation of land areas which, in whole or in part, became present day DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette and Newton Counties.

Shortly after the Claxton post office opened, D. C. Newton, one of the partners in a naval stores company, laid out on a sheet of brown wrapping paper what became the original map of Claxton.

In 1870, the surrounding area was incorporated into Rockdale County out of Newton County, Georgia, and Conyers became the county seat.

Because of this incident, Newton became known as " bloody and lawless — the wickedest city in the west.

In 1841, Charles S. Yancey became circuit judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, to which Newton County was attached.

Contemporary Newton Township included land that later became part of Audubon, Audubon Park, Camden, Collingswood, Gloucester City, Haddon Heights, Haddonfield, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

The Olney Hymns () were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ) and his poet friend, William Cowper ( 1731 – 1800 ).

Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.

Tom usually shares his adventures with close friend Ned Newton, who eventually becomes the Swift Construction Company's financial manager.

He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling.

He appears periodically and discusses ideas for the perfect murder with his friend Joseph Newton

He and his close friend, Sergeant Newton, were patriots that saved American prisoners of war from certain death at the hands of British soldiers.

Joined by their friend Adi Newton and another synthesizer ( a Roland System-100 ), they formed The Future and began to create music in their own rehearsal facility in a disused cutlery workshop in the centre of Sheffield.

Stukeley was also one of the first biographers of Isaac Newton, of whom he was a friend.

Stukeley was a friend of Isaac Newton and wrote a memoir of his life ( 1752 ).

A friend of Isaac Newton, he wrote several minor works about the new calculus.

He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley.

The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher ( that is, an early-modern scientist ) and friend to the young Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively.

* Daniel Waterhouse – son of prominent Puritan Drake Waterhouse, roommate of Isaac Newton, friend of Gottfried Leibniz, and prominent member of the Royal Society.

He attended Sir Isaac Newton in his last illness and was an intimate friend of Alexander Pope and of Sir Hans Sloane.

Waterhouse confronts Newton over his increasingly unstable behavior and his fruitless attempts to derive a " theory of everything " under the enabling influence of Newton's close friend Fatio.

Charles Montagu, afterwards Earl of Halifax, was a fellow of Trinity and an intimate friend of Newton, and it was on his influence that Newton relied for promotion to some honourable and lucrative post.

Pepys must have heard such rumours, as in a letter to his friend Millington, the tutor of Magdalene College at Cambridge, dated September 26, 1693, he wrote: " I must acknowledge myself not at the ease I would be glad to be at in reference to excellent Mr Newton ; concerning whom ( methinks ) your answer labours under the same kind of restraint which ( to tell you the truth ) my asking did.

In 1699, with financial aid from his friend Isaac Newton, he published Lithophylacii Britannici Ichnographia, a catalogue of fossils collected from places around England, mostly Oxford, and now held in the Ashmolean.

After having Newton Baker ( Wilson's Secretary of War and a close friend of Clarke's ) speak with Clarke to confirm his opposition to trusts, Wilson offered Clarke the nomination.

The theory now called “ Le Sage ’ s theory of gravity ” was originally proposed in the 1690s by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, a friend of Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens.

He returned to East Bloomfield, NY and worked as a merchant before deciding to try his luck in real estate in Chicago in 1836 with the backing of his friend, Simon Newton Dexter.

He received his education at Newton Abbot Proprietary College alongside Bertram Fletcher Robinson, a future friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( see External Links below ).