Celeste Garcia
Mr. Sandquist
Physics
November 21, 2014
Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England (World). He is credited as one of the greatest minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution (Bio). Two months before he was born his father died and in the age of three his mother, Hannah Newton, remarried and moved away leaving him with his uncle (World). Young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some grudge against his mother for marrying him. "Threatening my father and mother to burn them and the house over them.", as revealed by his entry in a lists on sins he created in the age of nineteen (World). Throughout his adolescences he was educated at The King’s School, Grantham …show more content…
Newton played a big role in the development of calculus. Newton also built the first reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into many colors of the visible spectrum.
One of Isaac Newton’s major works was philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) which was completed in 18 months. At the age of 45, his piece of work was first published in Latin in 1687 (smith). In the Principa Newton provided mathematical solutions to most of his problems relating to motion, using his laws of gravitational (smith). After the publication of Principia, Newton became depressed and lost interest in scientific matters. Later became interested in university politics and was elected representative in Parliament (Sir Isaac …show more content…
In this time period he became extremely rich. In 1703, he was elected president of the Royal Society and was re-elected each year until his death. Then in 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. (Sir Isaac Newton) Apart from these outstanding positions he held many more, like in 1667 he was a fellow of the Trinity College in Cambridge, and in 1699 he became a mathematics professor at Cambridge (smith).
In the year 1704, Isaac Newton wrote and published “The Optics”, formerly published in English rather than in Latin (Bio). It reached a wide range of readers in England. It contained an amount of experiments performed by himself and his own conclusions drawn from them (Bio). This book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means the refraction of light with prisms and lenses. The Optics is considered one of the greatest works of science (Smith).
Mr. Sandquist
Physics
November 21, 2014
Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England (World). He is credited as one of the greatest minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution (Bio). Two months before he was born his father died and in the age of three his mother, Hannah Newton, remarried and moved away leaving him with his uncle (World). Young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some grudge against his mother for marrying him. "Threatening my father and mother to burn them and the house over them.", as revealed by his entry in a lists on sins he created in the age of nineteen (World). Throughout his adolescences he was educated at The King’s School, Grantham …show more content…
Newton played a big role in the development of calculus. Newton also built the first reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into many colors of the visible spectrum.
One of Isaac Newton’s major works was philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) which was completed in 18 months. At the age of 45, his piece of work was first published in Latin in 1687 (smith). In the Principa Newton provided mathematical solutions to most of his problems relating to motion, using his laws of gravitational (smith). After the publication of Principia, Newton became depressed and lost interest in scientific matters. Later became interested in university politics and was elected representative in Parliament (Sir Isaac …show more content…
In this time period he became extremely rich. In 1703, he was elected president of the Royal Society and was re-elected each year until his death. Then in 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. (Sir Isaac Newton) Apart from these outstanding positions he held many more, like in 1667 he was a fellow of the Trinity College in Cambridge, and in 1699 he became a mathematics professor at Cambridge (smith).
In the year 1704, Isaac Newton wrote and published “The Optics”, formerly published in English rather than in Latin (Bio). It reached a wide range of readers in England. It contained an amount of experiments performed by himself and his own conclusions drawn from them (Bio). This book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means the refraction of light with prisms and lenses. The Optics is considered one of the greatest works of science (Smith).