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His birth date was revised to January 4, 1643 by the Gregorian calendar
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His birth date was revised to January 4, 1645 by the Gregorian calendar
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643), “an hour or two after midnight", at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 4, 1643, Isaac Newton was born in the hamlet of Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England (using the “old” Julien calendar, Newton’s birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642). He was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac Newton, who died three months before he was born.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time, Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642. But by the 1640s, much of the rest of Europe was using the Gregorian calendar (the one in general use today); according to this calendar, Newton was born on Jan. 4, 1643.
Detailed explanation-4: -Isaac Newton, in full Sir Isaac Newton, (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England-died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.
Detailed explanation-5: -Scientist of the Day-Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born Jan. 4, 1643. It used to be that we celebrated Newton’s birthday on Dec. 25, for his own birth records attest that he came into the world on Christmas Day, 1642.