Isaac Newton

Intro: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment are typically taught alongside one another and share connections. The Scientific Revolution was first brought about around the year 1540 and continued until the 1700s. European scholars used the time to understand the fundamentals in which the natural world worked, which are used in modern science today. Rather than be called scientists, they referred to themselves as natural philosophers instead. The Enlightenment began after the…

Proving Newton’s Second Law of Motion Aim: Prove that a (acceleration) is proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to the mass. Background Theory: Sir Isaac Newton presented his three laws of motion in the Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis in 1687. The second law, ΣF = ma, states that changes in force will cause an object to accelearate and with this equation, one can figure out how much. It can be rewritten into a = ΣF / m, and thus, it can be seen that acceleration…

The Western Intellectual Tradition by J. Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish examines different European/American historical periods from the year 1500 to 1900. It focuses on the great thinkers and philosophers from those times, as well as certain historical periods that are considered significant. This essay focuses on chapters 2, 10, 15, 21, and 23. They are about the city-states of Italy, the Royal society, Montesquieu, Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution, and Edmund Burke respectively.…

I am applying for a Maths teacher position at the Isaac Newton Academy because I firmly believe that I have what it takes to make students’ progress in every single lesson. I have taught in a number of schools, including covering different schools and subjects. This enabled me to work with different people and meet many students. The brief moment that I used to work as a cover teacher helped me to be flexible, committed and experience managing students in different subjects. I have worked at a…

precise, the necessary adjustments to the model became more complicated. Four hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler announced his empirical laws (discovered experimentally) that accurately described motions of the planets. Three hundred years ago, Isaac Newton improved Kepler’s laws and provided many of the mathematical formulas that allow…

The 15th through the 18th centuries was a time for major changes in the way the people viewed the world. It was the beginning of a movement that would forever change the way of life. I am going to discuss the major intellectual developments of Europe in the 15th through the 18th centuries. I will talk about whom some of the great thinkers were and what their new ideas were. I will also analyze how these new ideas changed the way the European people viewed their world and themselves. Starting in…

the challenging ideals of Newton and Copernicus, science has been completely redefined and continues to grow as a result. Thomas Kuhn described particular scientific events, such as the transition from Aristotelian to Newtonian physics, as a paradigm shift that is realized when questioning the flaws of the then understood subject. The paradigm shift can be viewed…

New innovations and breakthroughs of the 17th and 18th centuries encouraged a small number of talented women scientists to create their own theories about the natural world. These women scientists carried out their own experiments; in addition to that they even published their results. Women in the Scientific Revolutionary era had very little proper training in the sciences, all the reading and studying was done on their own. As seen throughout time, these particular women were shamed, because…

are told, but they required scientific proof before they start believing. Galileo has made a number of inventions that has further contributed to the advancement of the sciences. Now he is considered the father of modern science. Galileo helped Isaac Newton create further advancements in mathematics and science. He has showed everyone how experimentation would be carried out in the future. Galileo proved things that seemed impossible back then, just like what modern people do today. He had a…

The Scientific Revolution had many innovations. It happened during the middle Ages and some of the most famous scientists were alive during this time. The scientific revolution happened because people started doubting their old beliefs. This encouraged new ways of thinking and the development of new scientific instruments. During this time variables for math and the decimal system were introduced. Also the heliocentric theory was introduced contradicting the old theory saying that the earth was…