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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” This is a famous quote by scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. He changed the world’s point of view by proposing the principles of gravity and the law of color. Although he faced through challenges and challengers, he became one of the greatest geniuses that ever lived. As we see in his quote, the “giants” were in fact Newton’s idols like Galileo and Rene Descartes.He studied their work and then came up with his ideas and inventions. Legend says that an apple fell on his head, hence he made up the principles of gravity. This,unfortunately, did not occur, as Newton and other biographers embellished it, passing on over generations(biography.com).
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Isaac Newton was frustrated at this,that he threatened to burn their house with them alive. Isaac Newton had to live with his grandmother. This introduced a sense of diffidence, or insecurity, to him that will haunt him during his years at Cambridge University Later,at age twelve ,his mother returns home, along with 3 very little children after her second husband Barnabas Smith died. Newton enrolled at King’s School at Grantham,England. There he entered the amazing world of chemistry. But his mother pulled Isaac out of school so he could tend the farm. Newton found this work miserably …show more content…

Newton enrolled to Trinity College, and once he was at Cambridge, the rise of the Scientific Revolution had begun craving for more knowledge and new discoveries on science and mathematics. The Scientific Revolution was a time of new scientific discoveries, such as Newton's law of gravity and Copernicus's heliocentric theory. Philosophers and scientists like Rene Descartes and Johannes kepler gave in their ideas like Descartes scientific method and Kepler's ellipse theory(biography.com). Sometimes students would throw loud parties,and it irritated Newton very much.He would go on walks sometimes alone. Then that’s when he finds his close friend John Wickens. Both were curious for science and math, and liked to spend time by themselves. After Newton’s 3 years at Trinity, he learned the standard curriculum, but was more curious on advanced science and mathematics. Newton didn't win any honors,but he earned financial care for further education. In 1665, the disastrous plague struck Europe and Newton left Cambridge midyear to Woolsthorpe(biography.com). But he still continued his studies privately. There,he laid a foundation for law of color and motion, and eventually creates his book Principia that shares all of his theories and ideas. When he came back to Trinity College, he was awarded with great success.He took

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