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Isaac Newton Research Paper

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Childhood

Sir Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643. Isaac was named after his father, but his father tragically died three months before Isaac was born. His father was a farmer and his mother, Hannah Newton, was a wondrous woman that would marry many more men in her life. Isaac was born as a premature baby with a short life expectancy. When he turned 3, his mother abandoned him to marry another man, leaving Isaac with his grandmother. This would greatly affect Isaac’s behavior later on by becoming more sensitive. Ironically, his mother came back when he was 12. Newton was then put in King's School in Grantham. Isaac would then find a passion for chemistry and seemed to thrive in science for the school. However, at age 12, his mother wanted …show more content…

His uncle saw potential in Isaac with his passion for science and convinced his mother to send him to University of Cambridge's Trinity College.

Education

This was the college that his uncle graduated from. Newton began studying at Cambridge in 1661. The “scientific revolution” was already in full effect due to the scientists, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo with their findings on heliocentric theory. This was a brand new theory at the time, which explains why Cambridge still went with mostly Aristotelian philosophy, primarily on geocentric views and how nature works. During his first three years at the college, Isaac found himself in more advanced science classes. He mainly studied modern philosophers. During his study, Isaac kept a second portion of notes called “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae", Certain Philosophical Questions. This is where Isaac came up with concepts of nature, which would later on help the “scientific revolution”. With the help of his findings, Isaac soared to the top of his college, without being …show more content…

This book was revolutionary to physics and became the most influential book for physics and other sciences at the time. The publication accelerated the popularity for Isaac, making him an international public figure. The Principia explains three main rules throughout the book. 1. A stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it. 2. Force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion is proportional to the force applied. 3. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
The principia basically stated the theory of gravity. Isaac assembled together the law of universal gravitation. This law 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 centers. This law explains the pull of the sun’s gravity(moon revolves around the Earth). THis also allowed the calculation mass for each planet and explains the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon create Earth’s tides. Isaac also believed that gravity kept the universe balanced and brought heaven and Earth

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