Sir Isaac Newton Research Paper

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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was an english physicist and mathematician, who was most famous for his laws on gravity and was a crucial significance in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. He was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton brought revolutions in optics, movement and science, Newton built up the standards of current material science. He published his most critically acclaimed work in the year of 1687 which is known to be the single most influential book on the science of physics. Newton died in London on March 31, 1727. Newton was enlisted at the King's School in Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire, where he stopped with a nearby pharmacist and was acquainted with the entrancing universe …show more content…

In August 1669, Isaac Barrow identified the author of the papers to Mr.Collins as "Mr. Newton ... very young ... but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency in these things." Newton's work was brought to the attention of the mathematics community for the first time. Shortly afterward, Barrow resigned his Lucasian professorship at Cambridge, and Newton assumed the chair. Newton also studied optics, it was very much assisted with the use of a reflecting telescope that he designed and constructed in the year 1668 which happened to be his first major public scientific achievement. By using this reflecting telescope he was able to prove his theory of light and color.
Newton received criticism for much of his work this led to 18 months of determination and hard work, finally in 1687, Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy).This book was most often known as “Principia” and it considered to be one of the most influential book on physics and pretty much all of science, The book Principia has information on nearly all of the basic concepts of …show more content…

The infamous three basic laws that we use to this day were included in this book. The 1st law stating that a stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it; The 2nd law stating that force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied. And the 3rd law being, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. These three laws helped explain how all objects move in our universe, this aided in the study of our solar system’s elliptical planetary orbits and how the planets are kept in orbit by the pull of the sun’s gravity. How comets revolve in elliptical orbits around the sun.We also learned how the moon revolves around Earth and the moons of Jupiter revolve around

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