Isaac Newton
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Who was Isaac Newton?
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer,
theologian, and author who is widely known as one of the most
influential scientists of all time and as a main figure in the scientific
world. Newton was the first person to demonstrate the natural laws,
govern the motion of Physics. He is also very famed for his ‘Apple
tree incident’. The incident occurred in the late summer of 1666. In
other observations, it is stated that Newton was sitting in his garden at
Woodsthorpe Manor near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He noted an
apple fall from a tree, curiosity grew inside of him and he speculate
upon the nature of gravitation.
Background
• Date of birth: January 4, 1643,
• Place of birth: Wools Thorpe Manor, UK
• Education: The King’s School (1655–1659), Trinity College (1661–1665),
Trinity College (rejoin) (1667–1668)
• Family: Mother, Step-Father, no wife, no kids
• Resting place: Westminster Abbey, London, UK
• Death: March 31, 1727 due to natural causes
Early years
Isaac Newton was born in 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father was a wealthy,
uneducated farmer who died three months before Newton was born. Newton's mother
remarried and he was left in the care of his grandmother. He attended Free Grammar
Click icon to add picture school. Though Newton did not excel in school, he did earn the opportunity to attend
Trinity College Cambridge where he wanted to study law. His mother refused to pay
for his education so while at college he worked as a servant to pay his way. Newton
also kept a journal where he was able to express his ideas on various topics. He became
interested in mathematics after buying a book at a fair and not understanding the math
concepts it contained. Newton graduated with a bachelors degree in 1665. The further
pursuit of an education was interrupted by the plague. Trinity College was closed due
to the highly contagious, deadly disease. Newton went home. It was during this time
that Newton started to pursue his own ideas on math, physics, optics and astronomy. By
1666 he had completed his early work on his three laws of motion. The university
reopened and Newton took a fellowship in order to obtain his masters degree.
Family
• Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also
named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was born.
Upon the death of his stepfather in 1653, Newton lived in an extended family consisting
of his mother, his grandmother, one half-brother, and two half-sisters. It is rumored that
he disliked his mother because she re-married and moved away. Newton never got
married or had any kids, he dedicated his life for his career and interests in Physics.
kAcheievments
• He invented the calculus
• He formulated the theory of universal gravity
• He invented reflecting lenses for telescopes,
• He developed anti-counterfeiting measures for coins
• He explored optics, experimenting with prisms and investigating light.
• He studied the nature of white light
• He invented versions of his three laws of motion
• He had also discovered the law giving the centrifugal force on a body moving uniformly in a
circular path.
Top written books
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
• Opticks (1704)
• Arithmetica Universalis (1707)
• De mundi systemate (1728)
• The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728)
• The preliminary manuscripts for Isaac Newton's 1687
Principia, 1684-1685 (1687)
More about Isaac
. Newton’s life
• Newton had a bad relationship with his step-father, he didn’t like his step-father.
• He didn’t like politics, despite the fact he was a member of the parliament.
• He could speak English, Latin and Greek.
• He was estimated to have an IQ of 193
• His biological father who died three months before his death had the same exact name as Isaac
Newton himself.
• He anxiously obsessed over his published work, defending its merits with irrational behavior.
• Due to a rough childhood without the presence of his mother he developed physcological problems
• Late in life, Newton suffered a nervous breakdown and became known for rather eccentric behavior.
• Growing up he had a shuttering problem.
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Awards
Over the years of phenomenal hard work, Newton
recieved many awards that were a remark of his hard
work, like:
FRS (1672)
Knight bachelor (1705)
He got a seat in Parliament and burial in Westminster Abbey.
He also received several unlisted awards and honors
Famous quotes
• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
• If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
-Isaac Newton
Timeline of Newton’s life
1653: Newton 1653: Newton 1661: Newton 1665: Newton
1642: Isaac Newton attends King's shows his interest enrolls at receives a
is born School in Grantham and creativity in Cambridge bachelor's of arts
(About 1653) arts. University. degree.
1666: Newton
1689: Newton is 1687: Newton 1671: Newton joins 1667: Newton
returns to
elected to publishes his major the Royal Society of returns to
Woolsthorpe (due to
Parliament. work, Principia. London. Cambridge.
plague)
1703:Newton
1693: Newton gets 1696: Newton is
becomes president 1705: Newton is March 20, 1727:
sick. (mercury appointed Warden
of the Royal knighted. Newton dies.
poisoning) of the Mint.
Society.