Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician, physicist and discoverer of the laws of gravity, was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1642, the same year that Galileo, the Itailian scientist, died. How many years ago was that?
Note: the question was asked in 2000.
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