Trinity College, Cambridge

It was then decided that he would got to the university, so he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661.
Cambridge was run using the philosophy of Aristotle. During their third year some freedom of study was permitted. Newton started studying the new mechanical philosophy of Descartes, Gassendi, and Boyle; the new algebra and analytical geometry of Vieta, Descartes, and Wallis; and in the mechanics and Copernican astronomy of Galileo. When the plague forced the University to close in the summer of 1665 he returned home to Lincolnshire. Newton made pretty much all of his discoveries when the plague was making it's way through England. During the next 18 months he made revolutionary advances in mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy.