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The Genius Of Sir Isaac Newton

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History has had its fair share of phenomenal scientists, but none can overshadow the genius of Sir Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643. His father died before he was born and he lived in Colsterworth in Lincolnshire with his grandparents and three siblings. Isaac Newton was know to be quite secluded as a young boy. Young Newton had a knack for model making and art, for example, he made a working model of a windmill at some point in his childhood. He also made other things such as dolls furniture and water clocks. Isaac’s grandparents sent him to king’s school in grantham. At the age of eighteen, Newton attended Cambridge. He was a major contributor to the scientific revolution alongside numerous other great scientists …show more content…

Newton’s discoveries about gravity all began while he was sitting under an apple tree. one of the apples fell from the tree making him begin to think about what caused the change in acceleration and velocity in the apple. Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that “Every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force directed along the lines of centers for the two objects that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the separation between the two objects”. This law indicates that all objects in the universe are constantly pulling against each other. This law began to work wonders in not only his own laws and discoveries, but also in the finding of Johannes Kepler and his laws of planetary motion.
This law of gravity coincides perfectly with Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. His first law state that “The orbit of a planet about the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus”. This means that all planets orbit in ellipses around one of two focuses being the sun. The second focus forms a more oval shaped orbit because it is an area of lesser gravity that the planet slightly strays from the magnitude of the gravitational pull of the sun. This first law can be clearly seen in the solar system earth is currently in. Kepler’s second law explains that “A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time” This

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