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Newton entered Cambridge University and received his Bachelors degree in 1665. His scientific genius did not emerge, however, until the summer of 1665. Then, while the bubonic plague kept him under quarantine, he began to think about science and math. While at home, Newton laid the foundations of Calculus. When he returned from quarantine at age twenty seven, he was appointed Lucasion Professor at Cambridge. In 1687, Newton published whtat is regarded as the most influential scientific book of all time -Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. In this book, Newton described his three laws of motion, and, most importantly, his law of universal gravitation. This law states that all bodies attract all other bodies with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them squared. This is considered the most important scientific discovery of all time. |