Life of Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton built a fundamental of physics. He is an English physician, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. He is superior in many ways. He invented a reflecting microscope, so he developed a theory of color, which is proved by prism. He published ‘Philosophiea Naturalis Principia Mathematica(Lantin for “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” usually called the Principia)’ in 1687. It became a masterpiece with just published. This great book includes a theory of gravity and the Newton’s three laws. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. Moreover, he proved helicocentrism by his theory of gravitation and kepler’s law of planetary motion.

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Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the country of Lincolnshire. There was Puritan Revolution when he was born. He was born three months after the death of his father, who was a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. He was born prematurely, so he was a really small child. When he was three, his mother Hannah Ayscough remarried and lived with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabus Smith. Newton cared of maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. When he was ten years old, his mother who lost her new husband came back to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth with three boys. Newton detested his stepfather, and he abhorred his mother for remarrying. He had written in a list of sins committed up, ‘Threatening father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them’. He was once engaged to a Miss Storey, and he never married. He highly engrossed in his studies and work. His mother Hannah Ayscough wanted Newton to be a farmer, and she was unconcerned with education. She also begrudged spending money for his education. From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King’s School, Grantham. He was removed from school by October 1659. His mother forced him to be a farmer. He hated farming. Henry Stokes, master at the King’s School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. He was sent to school, and he became the top-ranked student. In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. At that time, the colledge’s teaching styles were based on Aristotle, but Newton preferred to read advanced ideas of modern philosophers, such as Descartes, and also he was interested in reading of astronomers such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler.

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