Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Farfesa Winthrop na ɗaya daga cikin manyan masanan kimiyya a Amurka a ƙarni na 18, kuma tasirinsa a farkon ci gabansa a New England yana da mahimmanci. Dukansu Benjamin Franklin da Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) mai yiwuwa sun ba da yawa daga cikin sha'awar su na farko a binciken kimiyya ga tasirinsa. Har ila yau, yana da tasiri mai mahimmanci a farkon ilimin falsafa na John Adams a lokacin da yake a Harvard. Ya yi rubutu a kai a kai tare da Royal Society a London - saboda haka, yana ɗaya daga cikin masu ilimi na farko na Amurka da aka ɗauka da gaske a Turai. An zabe shi a cikin Ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Amirka a shekara ta 1768. An san shi da ƙoƙarin da ya yi na bayyana girgizar ƙasa mai girma da ta auku a Lisbon a shekara ta 1755
a matsayin kimiyya "maimakon addini" mamaki, da kuma aikace-aikace na ilmin lissafi lissafi zuwa girgizar kasa aiki bin babban girgizar kasa kafa tushen da da'awar sanya a madadinsa a matsayin wanda ya kafa kimiyya na seismology. Bugu da ƙari, ya lura da wucewar Mercury a shekara ta 1740 da 1761 kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Newfoundland don lura da wucewar Venus. Ya yi tafiya a cikin jirgin ruwa wanda lardin Massachusetts ya bayar - mai yiwuwa ne na farko binciken kimiyya da aka taɓa aikawa ta kowace jihar Amurka.