• I was born on the Isle of Wight, England, in 1635.
  • I was passionate about scientific inquiry from a young age but struggled to support my work until I became Surveyor to the City of London after the great fire of 1666.
  • I formulated the law of elasticity, proposed an undulating theory of light, introduced the term cell to biology, and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction.
  • I also developed a number of scientific instruments and mechanical devices and designed a number of buildings in London.
  • My achievements led me to be dubbed by one historian as “England’s Leonardo Da Vinci”.

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