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Isaac Newton's Accomplishments

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Father of gravity, calculus, and the color spectrum, Sir Isaac Newton was, and still is, the single most important figure in scientific history. Born in 1642 to a poor farming family, Newton did not have a knack for farming and was sent to Cambridge where he studied Mathematics. This was short lived however, as Cambridge later closed due to the plague. However, only after Cambridge closed did Newton make some of his most significant discoveries (Weisstein, n.d.), which also included his most well-known discovery: gravity. It is commonly thought that Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head to which he questioned why the apple did not float into space, however this is likely embellished as the location and date of

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