isaac newton biography

New York: Pantheon Books, 1968. - Manuel, Frank E. The Religion of Isaac Newton. Oxford: Clarendon, 1974. - Yolton, John W. ed. Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Newton's childhood acquaintances remember him building a model windmill, ingenious water-mill and many sun-dials (North 5-8). Newton, as an unsuccessful farmer, entered Trinity College at the age of eighteen. He went as a subsizer (one who runs errands to pay for college). Here Newton studied Sanderson's Logic and Kepler's Optics along with a number of leading edge theories at the time. Newton was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge by 1663.

Over the centuries, math has evolved in an astounding way. Since the beginning of time, there have been many mathematicians that has influenced and contributed to the math we know today. None compares to the work of Sir Isaac Newton. He was influential as a person, as well as in his work. Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Wools Thorpe, Lincolnshire.

Isaac Newton had a huge impact on the Enlightenment, he influenced it scientifically in many ways and he influenced faith and reason in a tremendous way. He was known more for his scientific achievements then his religious works.His background and education affected when he made these great achievements. Isaac Newton born on December 25,1642 in Woolsthorpe, England grew up, he was the most important physicist and mathematician of all time.1 Newton attended Cambridge where he studied mathematics. Although he was considered a genious he was also considered an eccentric who was unsociable, vindictive, absent-minded and paranoid, he was considered to have a mid-life mental illness caused by the death of his mother.2Newton was very modest to the extent he had his friends publish his papers.3Newton fled Cambridge to escape the plague, during this period he made many of his accomplishments.4 Also he was persecuted for his faith in God. Thousand of men and women who were good Christians were thoroughly loyal to politics and the belief that science and religion aren’t compatible.Many men and women had nothing but dislike and even contempt.5 Just a few of his accomplishments so crucial to the Enlightenment and currently still important are; essentials of mathematics called Calculus, Optical law-white light is a mixture of colors, and the principle of the law of gravitation.Also he wrote Naturalis Principia Mathematica, better known as Principia Mathematica, which is the single most influential scientific treatise ever written.6 In fact if a single point was given to the beginning of the Enlightenment, it would be the year of Newton’s publication of this book.7It provided the underlying principle for the Enlightenment.8Not only d... ... middle of paper ... ...l. 2.

Sir Isaac Newton was a very intelligent mathematician and physicist who is considered one of the most influential scientist of all time. He became a very successful man making many contributions to the field of physics while battling memories of his early life and mental issues he encountered . He is well known for Newtonian mechanics, Universal gravitation, Infinitesimal calculus, Optics Binomial series, Principal Newton's method. Also for publishing a book and building the first reflecting telescope. Isaac Newton was born into a poor farming family on Christmas day 1642 in Lincolnshire, England.

Isaac Newton was a very intelligent man. He was a proficient physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and a mathematician. He is widely known as “the most important figure in the scientific revolution.” (Baigrie, Brain S. 2001) When Isaac Newton was a physics he formulated the three fundamental laws of motion. Those laws helped led him in the right direction to develop a universal law of gravity. He was the first to discover that color is the property of light and that colors are visable in the spectrum or in the rainbow.

History has brought many influential scientists. Sir Isaac Newton is perhaps the most influential scientist of all time. Without his works and discoveries, mankind might have been set back many decades or even scores in scientific and technological advancement. Therefore, because of his tremendous impact on mankind, it is important to study Sir Isaac Newton's life and acheivements. Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643.

He became a very insecure, exhibited boy and displayed irrational behavior (bio). His grandfather died when he was ten so his grandmother made him learn the alphabet and read the Bible even though most people were illiterate (Krull l6). Even though his grandparents raised him, Isaac wasn’t close to them and never mentioned his grandmother’s death (Krull 15). Isaac was reunited with his mom when he was twelve years old; she had three small children from her second husband who was deceased. By that time, he was enrolled at King’s School in Grantham where he was first introduced to chemistry (Bio).

He was the only son of a prosperous farmer whose name was also Isaac Newton. Unfortunately his father passed away about 3 months before he was even born. Newton was a premature baby and was not expected to survive. His mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried when he was 3 and left him to his grandmother. This action made him very insecure later in life (“Isaac”).

His father died just months before he was even born and when he was only three years old, his mother had left him in the care of his grandmother. He soon got interested in building different things such as water clocks, a model mill powered by a mouse as well as countless numbers of drawings and diagrams. When he was 12 years old, he began to attend King’s School but, his schooling did not last for long. His mother took him out of school with the intention of making him into a farmer. Newton’s childhood was anything but, happy and throughout his life he occasionally fell into violent and bitter attacks against friends and foes.