Famous scientist born on christmas day

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary: Sir Isaac Newton.

Isaac newton date of death

The physicist and mathematician was born on December 25, , using the older style Julian calendar, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. (The famed scientist's birthday has since shifted to January 4, , on the new Gregorian calendar.)

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The Julian Calendar is named after Julius Caesar, who established the system based off the Roman republican calendar used before the emergence of Christianity. Our modern day Gregorian calendar has been used since being instituted by Pope Gregory XIII in , explained the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Born in an English village prematurely, the young Newton was so small he fit into a quart pot and was predicted not to live long, LiveScience reported.

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