Isaac Newton may have been the greatest and most influential scientist and mathematician in history, but he would not appreciate that title. For Newton didn’t invent calculus and create the basis for modern physics under pressure and for a purpose, he was, as he said “only like a boy playing on the sea shore” (Gleick 4). Newton, for most of his life, was quiet and kept his work to himself. He suffered a rather formalistic childhood without a father; his mother married a rich man who wanted a wife, but not a stepson (9).
When Newton reached a college age, his mother now rich with the fortune of her second husband, decided that he should go to college, but pay for it himself. Newton had very little money as he entered school.
School, in those days, taught astronomy not as an area of physics, but through Aristotle’s logic.
“Geometry belonged to the celestial sphere; it might relate music and the stars, but projectiles of rock or metal were inappropriate objects for mathematical treatment. So technology, advancing, exposed Aristotelian mechanics as quaint and impotent. Gunners understood that a cannonball, once in flight, was no longer moved by anything but a ghostly memory of the explosion inside the iron barrel; and they were learning roughly, to compute the trajectories of their projectiles.” (24)
Aristotelian mechanics were failing, but the schools still taught them as absolute truth. To go against their logic was frowned upon. “The single authority in all the realms of secular knowledge was Aristotle - doctor’s son, student of Plato, and collector of books. Logic, ethics, and rhetoric were all his, and so - to the extent they were studied at all - were cosmology and mechanics” (Gleick 22). Yet, the texts of earl...
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...incident regarding publishing should remind us to share our discoveries with others and not keep them to ourselves. The scientific theories that developed as a result of Newton's reasoning are accurate enough that we can still use them today for most tasks. Einstein's relativity may have perfected it by explaining the true nature of time; but even if we knew how to study time in detail, being able to calculate the trajectory of a rock thrown into the air is the direct result of Newton's work. However, we must remember that, even though Newton was a great scientist and mathematician, the work of understanding the world is never done. Newton may have opened doors, but it's our job to go through them. Most importantly, however, we must not think of Newton simply as a machine that made modern physics possible. He was a man, he did not just calculate, he innovated.
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