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    Scientific Revolution, Isaac Newton developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion After he was knighted by Queen Anne of England in 1705, he earned the Sir in the name that most people call him by today, along with his real name. Newton made multiple inventions and discoveries such as light being the composite of all colors, which was composed of light particles, being able to explain the laws of motion and gravity, and etc. As stated earlier, Sir Isaac Newton ,…

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    The history of Calculus can be traced back as early as the 5th Century B.C.E. in Ancient Greece. The first major discovery was made by a Greek scholar named Hippasus. Not much is known about this philosopher who studied under Pythagoras; but, he has sometimes been credited with the discovery of irrational numbers. \begin{center} \includegraphics[width = 6 cm]{triangle.png} \end{center} He described his reasoning as: \begin{enumerate} \item Start with an isosceles right triangle with side…

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    evil or bad, that they have bad and good days and nobody is just one. 3. The church didn't accept him because his thoughts challenged the church. That they believe in their thoughts about the heavens and how it's fixed in position to Earth. Isaac Newton created a brilliant theory to help explain why planets moved in the way that they do. The mattered because he was able to prove the single force keeps planets in the orbits around the sun, called gravity. 4. Methods of a new science set out a…

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    Joseph Priestley died 214 years ago but is remembered as being an influential scientist of the eighteenth century. Priestly made many scientific discoveries but one of his most important discoveries, and the one his is most remembered for today, is the discovery of oxygen. Priestley was born near Leeds on 13th March 1733 and spent much of his adult life as a teacher and preacher. As well as science, Priestley was extremely knowledgeable in many areas including theology, history, education,…

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    Isaac Newton was born on January 4 1643. He was born in Woolsthorpe England Christianson 8). He was the only son of a wealthy local farmer Christianson 8). His father’s name was also Isaac Newton who died three months before Isaac Newton was born Christianson 9). Newton was a premature baby and was tiny and weak and not expected to survive Christianson 11). When Newton was three years old his mother Hannah Ayscough Newton left and remarried to a minister named Barnabas Smith Christianson 17).…

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    Sir Isaac Newton The famous scientist I chose is Sir Isaac Newton. He is famous for his work on universal gravitation. He also developed the three laws of motion. I wanted to know more about Newton because the only thing I knew was that an apple fell on his head and he started thinking about gravitation so that’s why I chose him. Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, United Kingdom. He is an English physicist and mathematician. He is maybe the most famous scientist in history. His father died…

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    “It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.” Daniel Bernoulli once said this statement. Not many people know about Daniel Bernoulli. Daniel Bernoulli (He was also known as Daniel Bernovllivs), was a swiss mathematician that furthered the study of calculus and physics along with his family. He was known for his principle (Bernoulli’s Principle), but also did many other things with his time. He helped the field of hydrodynamics, and without knowing it helped…

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    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,…

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    Aristotle Vs Galileo

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    physics and started a unique paradigm on the world view. Followed by the disproval of his theories by the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, the English physicist Newton in turn came up with a new set of laws to accurately describe the phenomenons of the “Heavens” and the “Earth”. The core of the two different approaches of Aristotle and Newton were similar in that all objects had a “natural” state of motion, that objects tend to stay at rest. As Aristotle’s theories were intuitive and agreed…

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    last chapter, and then went right into the enlightenment period. Both are extremely powerful, and educational events. Since science had popularized in the years before the enlightenment extraordinary people like Newton, and Locke became a source of education for many. It was said that Newton was known as the “greatest and realist genius that ever rose for the ornament and instruction of the species.” which states how important and knowledgeable he was at the time. Locke stated in his novels that…

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