ABSTRACT
Isaac Newton was born in 1643 and he died in 1727. During that period England, Scotland and Ireland were all ruled by the same monarch, with England and Scotland joined together as Great Britain in 1707. In Newon’s time scientific journals started to appear. The first journals, which appeared in 1665, were the English Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and the French Journal des Savants. Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. He made changes in the money system that was effective for more than a hundred years and he also took steps against the counterfeiting of coins. Like many scientists and mathematicians, Newton seems to have been very absent-minded. He died on 31 March 1727, and was buried in Westminster Abbey with great ceremony.
