How Did Isaac Newton Influence The World

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Sir Isaac Newton has influenced the world for years. In his years of living he came up with the most creative and influential theories in the history of science. Along with his invention of the infinitesimal calculus and a new theory of light and color, Isaac Newton changed the structure of physical science with his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Newton’s work was combined with assistance from Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and others. Three hundred years later the building and the process continues to be a useful but elegant tribute to his thoughts. After all this, Isaac Newton is influential in the world.
Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (old calendar time) in Woolsthorpe, a small village in Lincolnshire near Grantham. Isaac Newton was born premature and had actually been able to fit into a tea cup, his family did not know if he was going to make it or not through his early life. His father, who was a farmer had died two months before Isaac was born. When Isaac was three years old his mother, …show more content…

The logical world of England at the time Newton enlisted in Cambridge was very different from what it was when he was born. While his years spent at Trinity College, he earned a Bachelor Degree but soon after the university had closed down as a protection to the plague there which was a contagious and deadly disease. (Zalta)
After this happened, Newton continued with private studies at home and the following two years he saw the development of his theories on calculus, optics and the law of gravitation. While he was at home in Woolsthorpe, the idea of universal gravitation occurred to him, it is said, that had happened by watching an apple drop to the floor in his garden. The apple tree is still in the garden at Woolsthorpe, a clone of it is also in The King's School garden.

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