Isaac Newton

William Oughtred was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England in 1574 and died on June 30, 1660, in Albury, Surrey. He was not only an English mathematician and an inventor; he was a vicar of Shalford and then became an Anglican priest. He received schooling from Eton School where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1596 and master’s degree from King's College in 1600. He is considered one of the greatest mathematical teachers and the world's great mathematicians from the seventeenth century. He…

Have you ever wondered what sparked the study of magnetism and changed the Ptolemaic model of the solar system with the Earth at its core? The Ptolemaic model was the dominant model of the solar system made up of the systems created by Aristotle and Ptolemy. From Ancient Greece in 4th Century B.C up until the late 16th century/early 17th century that model was used to show that every planet moves in a system of two spheres. These spheres were called deferent and epicycle, which both rotated…

Countless numbers of inventions are created by accident and on purpose. Such as sticky notes, potato chips, and the microwave oven. Unfortunately, many inventions were failures. These inventions were the wooden bathing suits, the snowstorm masks, and hairline brushes for bald men. Some of these inventions went up in fame and some went down without a mark. Many of inventions have blew up in fame by accident so many times. These are the accidental genius inventions. Fascinating inventions can be…

The Planets is the most successful and arguably the best recognized composition of Gustav Holst. Although Gustav composed some outstanding works after The Planets, none of them achieved recognition of the same level as The Planets. The Planets was composed while Holst was working as a music master. Holst had done some works before The Planets, which he considered as failures and such failures made him desperately think of a genre topic that could be phenomenal for his ideas of composition of…

As far as people who are well versed in just about every aspect of life, Johannes Kepler was one of the great few. Unlike many of the great thinkers of his era, kepler was known to be doubtful about writing his laws, he never even turn in his work so people can see his significant ideas. Back then there weren’t places to submit your work in order to get credit for them. Johannes kepler was known to be a German mathematician and astronomer, which from that he was able to discover that planets…

Johann Joachim Becher Johann Joachim Becher was a very successful man with a very determined mindset. His goal was to completely redefine nature itself. With the support of various scientists and publicity for his scientific research, Becher was able to formulate his theory of combustion, known as the Phlogiston theory, and was able morph gold out of the mud of the Danube. He was a physician, scholar, adventurer, alchemist, and precursor of chemistry. Becher was an author of two books, the…

William Herschel was a British scientist and astronomer who lived and studied during the late 18th century. He had a particular fascination with space and everything it contained, and he made it his goal to understand “the construction of the heavens”. The search for new astronomical objects during Herschel’s time was huge, and at one point during his studies, he began to become very intrigued by the discovery of nebulae. This interest of Herschel was partly due to the studies of another fellow…

Sir Walter Raleigh Walter Raleigh was born in Devon England in 1554 (Aronson 13). His parents were not very wealthy and Walter was not expected to to inherit anything of value (14). Even though he did not come from wealth Sir Walter Raleigh would later become a well known English explorer. Sir Walter was one of the bravest English explorers to ever live. Walter first appeared in history when he enrolled at Oriel College in 1568. He was a very tall man for his day he was said to be over six feet…

Introduction! Hello, today I will be talking about John Wallis, which John Wallis is known for the partial credit in the Infinitesimal Calculus. What impact did John Wallis have? In 1655 John Wallis discovered the Infinite Product π4 = 23x43x45x65x67xxx, and his colleague William Brouncker transformed this into the Infinite Continued. Which today is what we know as Calculus. Which if you don’t know what Calculus is, it is the branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and derivatives…

Sir Walter Raleigh grew up in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon. The youngest of five sons born to Catherine Champernowne in two successive marriages, his father, Walter Raleigh, was his mother’s second husband. Like young Walter, his relatives, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Humphrey Gilbert were prominent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Raised as a devout Protestant, Raleigh’s family faced persecution under Queen Mary I, a Catholic, and as a result, young…