Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physicist. He discovered the laws of motion and gravity. He was born on January 4,1643, but sometimes it is declared as December 25,1642 if you use the old Julian calendar. Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school in his younger years. At school when he was younger, Isaac was unmoved by literature and poetry, but found an interest in mechanics and technology. His mother had wanted him to run the family farm, but his uncle and professor realized he was destined with a intellectual life. Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician, and he made discoveries in physics(optics), and laws of motion and gravity.
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician. Early brilliance in …show more content…
To test that belief he stuck a needle into his eye to see the effect.(www.bbc.co) Later on in 1668, he reconsidered the design of the telescope with his theory of optics, which before his redesign was a huge instrument. Isaac’s redesign consisted of mirrors instead lenses, with the change it was more powerful and 10 times smaller than the original size. Soon after, in 1671, the Royal Society had heard of the reflecting telescope and asked for a demonstration of the device. The Royal Society was impressed and due to them being impressed Newton had the courage to say it was just a crucial experiment with light and color. One year later, in 1672, the Royal Society wanted Newton to publish his notes on light, colors, and optics.(www.biography.com) They were soon published as a part of Newton's Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of …show more content…
He outlined his laws of motion in Principia, the first law is that a stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it, the second states that force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied, and the third consists of saying that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton’s three laws of motion led him to his law of gravity. Newton’s law of gravity states that two objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction that’s proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician. Early brilliance in …show more content…
To test that belief he stuck a needle into his eye to see the effect.(www.bbc.co) Later on in 1668, he reconsidered the design of the telescope with his theory of optics, which before his redesign was a huge instrument. Isaac’s redesign consisted of mirrors instead lenses, with the change it was more powerful and 10 times smaller than the original size. Soon after, in 1671, the Royal Society had heard of the reflecting telescope and asked for a demonstration of the device. The Royal Society was impressed and due to them being impressed Newton had the courage to say it was just a crucial experiment with light and color. One year later, in 1672, the Royal Society wanted Newton to publish his notes on light, colors, and optics.(www.biography.com) They were soon published as a part of Newton's Opticks: Or, A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of …show more content…
He outlined his laws of motion in Principia, the first law is that a stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it, the second states that force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied, and the third consists of saying that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton’s three laws of motion led him to his law of gravity. Newton’s law of gravity states that two objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction that’s proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their