Sir Isaac Newton

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Sophie Boris
12/14/18
Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was known for his great work, though might be most famous for discovery gravity. The famous story went that he was sitting under a apple tree working when an apple dropped from the tree and hit the top of his head, and from the apple hitting him on the head something ticked in him where he started to wonder what brought down the apple to the ground. Though this story was probably just some version of the truth from hundreds of years ago his discoveries still shapes modern science and space today. 


Some of his other vary famous discoveries besides gravity that is still shaping the way we look at the world include, the modern telescope, spectral analysis, Newton’s three laws of motion, and calculus. The invention of the modern telescope which he built in 1668 still is used for the basic and easy to use model. Newton noticed when looking in other telescopes of at that time just glass lenses he noticed that it would be very blurry so he decided to change the way a telescope would work. He changed it by replacing the refracting lense mirrored ones, by doing this it created a smaller clearer better looking telescope for all people to use.

Newton’s three laws of motion that consist of inertia “that at rest or in motion will remain at rest or in motion unless it’s acted upon by an external force”, second law “the acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force”. And lastly the third law “that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Isaac Newton's three laws have helped people understand the rules of motion better and further their knowledge from them .So the laws are used everyday in the world without anyone knowing it, but he truly discovered something that is going to last for the rest of the world making his name go on.

Isaac Newton seemed to discover and create things that are going to last life times in the future, he must have been one on the smartest people living on this planet to create something that people spend their whole life studying. From what it seems to me the thing he has created are always going to be here and I don't know if they could get expanded upon or going any farther than they have come but I can say he has gone a great deal already. The work that he has put in is crazy so the man was o doubt a genius and needs all recontion all that since what he discovered affects you everyday of your life.

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