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 In June 1661, he was admitted to [|Trinity College, Cambridge]. There he studied the advanced ideas of modern philosophers such as [|Descartes], and [|astronomers] such as [|Copernicus] , [|Galileo] , and [|Kepler]. Then a little later, he discovered the generalized binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later become [|infinitesimal calculus]. Newton then obtained his degree in August of 1665. He then did his own private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe over the time period of two years saw the development of his theories on calculus, [|optics] and the [|law of gravitation]. In 1667 he then returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Trinity.