Isaac Newton Probably one of the most amazing scientists who ever lived was Isaac Newton. Not only was he a scientist, he was also an astronomer and mathematician. Although he discovered many things, he was well known for the development of the theory of gravity. This theory explained the three laws of motion and universal gravitation. Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. After three months before his birth, his father who was a farmer had unfortunately passed away. When Newton became three years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, had remarried and left him with his grandparents. When his mother’s second husband died, she reunited with her son around when he was 12. During his school years, he was an adequate
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However her mother wasn’t too fond of her passion, but her stepfather still encourage young Merian’s passionoo, which was an inappropriate subject for proper girls during that time. After meeting two other students who Morell taught, she married one of them, Johann Graff. After a couple years, she divorced her unfaithful husband and relocated with two daughters to Amsterdam. Merian had supported her family by selling paintings of insects, flowers, and birds, also teaching other women. Once she saved enough money and awarded a grant for her hard work, her and her daughter had set sail to Surinam. She traveled there because she was fascinated by the plants travelers had brought back with them from their trip there. During her two years of living there she studied and painted insects and plants. Unfortunately she had gotten ill, so her had to stop her work there and return back to Amsterdam and had published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, three years later before she died in 1717. Merian's work started to have a strong influence upon scientific illustration. Merian's pictures of insects didn’t only capture the accuracy and realism, but also the first to describe all the different stages of life. For being mocked for her individuality and her unladylike dedication to painting pictures of insects back then, she is now recognized as one of the best scientific illustrators of her day and of all
However her mother wasn’t too fond of her passion, but her stepfather still encourage young Merian’s passionoo, which was an inappropriate subject for proper girls during that time. After meeting two other students who Morell taught, she married one of them, Johann Graff. After a couple years, she divorced her unfaithful husband and relocated with two daughters to Amsterdam. Merian had supported her family by selling paintings of insects, flowers, and birds, also teaching other women. Once she saved enough money and awarded a grant for her hard work, her and her daughter had set sail to Surinam. She traveled there because she was fascinated by the plants travelers had brought back with them from their trip there. During her two years of living there she studied and painted insects and plants. Unfortunately she had gotten ill, so her had to stop her work there and return back to Amsterdam and had published Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, three years later before she died in 1717. Merian's work started to have a strong influence upon scientific illustration. Merian's pictures of insects didn’t only capture the accuracy and realism, but also the first to describe all the different stages of life. For being mocked for her individuality and her unladylike dedication to painting pictures of insects back then, she is now recognized as one of the best scientific illustrators of her day and of all