Sir Issac Newton

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Katelyn Miller
Force and Motion Blog
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was born in England on January 4, 1643. His father died three months before his birth and his mother remarried when Newton was three. Newton’s mother also left him in the care of his grandparents when he was little. Isaac attended school where he was an adequate student. At one point his mother tried to take him out of school so he could help on the farm, but Isaac had no interest in becoming a farmer and was soon back at school.

In 1661 Isaac Newton started college at Cambridge where he would later become a professor of mathematics and become elected to represent Cambridge University as a member of parliament. Isaac had to leave Cambridge from 1665 to 1667 because of the Great Plague. He spent these two years in study and isolation at his home in Woolsthorpe developing his theories on calculus, gravity, and the laws of motion. In 1687 Newton published his most important work called the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical principles of Natural Philosophy). In this work he described the three laws of motion as well as the law of universal gravity. This work would go down as one of the most important works in the history of science. It not only introduced the theory of gravity, but defined the principles of modern physics.
Sir Isaac Newton made many innovations and discoveries in his lifetime. Some of the most notable ones are gravity, laws of motion, calculus, and the reflecting telescope. He is probably most famous for discovering gravity. His theory about gravity helped to explain the movements of the planets and the Sun. This theory is known today as Newton's law of universal gravitation. The laws of motion were three fundamental laws of physics that laid the foundation for classical mechanics. Newton invented a whole new type of math which he called “fluxions” but today is called calculus. It is an important type of math used in advanced engineering and science. His invention of the reflecting telescope impacted science greatly because nearly all of the major telescopes used in astronomy today are reflecting telescopes. Newton died on March 31, 1727 in London, England. Today, he is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time alongside greats such as Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Galileo.

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