A person born on January 4, 1643, in hamlet of Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, was named Isaac Newton. Now, Isaac Newton was an established physicist and mathematician, and has been given the credit as one of the great minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. He is also well known due to his law of gravitation. The way that Sir Isaac Newton developed the principles of modern physics was by discoveries in optics, motion, and mathematics.
In the early life of Sir Isaac, he was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac Newton, who unfortunately died three months before he was even born. Isaac was a premature baby born miniature and frail, he was not expected to survive. When he reached to the age of 3 years old, his …show more content…
Unfortunately, in 1665, the Great Plague that was ravaging Europe had come to Cambridge, forcing the university to close. Newton returned home to pursue his private study. It was during this 18-month hiatus that he conceived the method of infinitesimal calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, and gained significant insight into the laws of planetary motion-insights that eventually led to the publication of his Principia in 1687. Legend has it that, at this time, Sir Isaac Newton experienced his famous inspiration of gravity with the falling apple.
When the threat of plague subsided in 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge and was elected a minor fellow at Trinity College, as he was still not considered a standout scholar. However, in the ensuing years, his fortune improved. Newton received his Master of Arts degree in 1669, before he was 27. During this time, he came across Nicholas Mercator's published book on methods for dealing with infinite series. Newton quickly wrote a treatise, De Analysi, expounding his own wider-ranging results. He shared this with friend and mentor Isaac Barrow, but didn't include his name as
In the early life of Sir Isaac, he was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac Newton, who unfortunately died three months before he was even born. Isaac was a premature baby born miniature and frail, he was not expected to survive. When he reached to the age of 3 years old, his …show more content…
Unfortunately, in 1665, the Great Plague that was ravaging Europe had come to Cambridge, forcing the university to close. Newton returned home to pursue his private study. It was during this 18-month hiatus that he conceived the method of infinitesimal calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, and gained significant insight into the laws of planetary motion-insights that eventually led to the publication of his Principia in 1687. Legend has it that, at this time, Sir Isaac Newton experienced his famous inspiration of gravity with the falling apple.
When the threat of plague subsided in 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge and was elected a minor fellow at Trinity College, as he was still not considered a standout scholar. However, in the ensuing years, his fortune improved. Newton received his Master of Arts degree in 1669, before he was 27. During this time, he came across Nicholas Mercator's published book on methods for dealing with infinite series. Newton quickly wrote a treatise, De Analysi, expounding his own wider-ranging results. He shared this with friend and mentor Isaac Barrow, but didn't include his name as