Isaac Newton Story

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ISAAC NEWTON

SIR ISAAC NEWTON


Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 at Woolsthorpe-by-Closeterworth, a hamlet in the country of Lincolnshire. At the time of Newton's birth, England had not adopted the latest papal calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642. Newton was born three months after the death of his father. Born peramaturely, he was small child; his mother Hannah Ayscough reportedly said that he could have fit inside a quart mug. When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabus Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandfather, Margery Ayscough. The young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some enmity towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry in a list of sins commited up to the age of 19; "Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.


In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity Collage, Cambridge as a sizer-a sort of work-study role. At the time, the collage's teachings were based on those of Aristotle, but Newton preferred to read the more advance ideas of modern philosophers such as Descartes and astronomers such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. In 1665, he discovered the generalized binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later become infinitesimal calculus. soon after Newton had obtained his degree in August of 1665, the University closed down as a precaution against the great Plague.


Two years he spent there were an extremely fruitful time during which he began to think about gravity, and also devoted time to optics and mathematics, working out hid ideas about 'fluxions' (calculus).


In 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge, where he become a fellow of Trinity Collage. Two years later he was appointed second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. It was Newton's reflecting Telescopes, made in 1668, that finally brought him to the attention of the scientific community and in 1672 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. From the mid-1660s, Newton conducted a series experiments on the composition of light, discovering that white light is composed of the same system of colours that can be seen in a rainbow and establishing the modern study of optics (or the behavior of light). In 1704, Newton published 'The Opticks' which dealt with light and colour. He also studied and published works on history, theology and alchemy.


However, in 1687, with the support of his friend the astronomers Edmond Halley, Newton published his single greatest work 'Philosophiae Naturalis Pricipia Mathematica' ('Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'). This showed how a universal force, Gravity, applied to all objects in all parts of the universe.


In 1689, Newton was elected MP for Cambridge Universities (1689-1690 and 1701 - 1702). In 1696, Newton was appointed warden of the Royal Mint, setting in London.He took his duties at the Mint very seriously and compaigned against corruption and inefficiency with in the organisation. In 1703, he was elected president of Royal Society, an office he held until hid death. He was kinghted in 1705.


Newton was difficult man, prone to depression and often involved in bitter arguments with other scientist, but by the early 1700s he was dominant figure in British and European science. He died on 31 March 1727 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.


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NEWTON’S 3rd LAWS OF MOTION

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BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC NEWTON

SIR ISAAC NEWTON


Born4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642][a]
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England
Died31 March 1727 (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1726][a]
Kensington, Middlesex, Great Britain
Resting placeWestminster Abbey
NationalityEnglish
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge (M.A., 1668)[2]
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Member of Parliament
for the University of Cambridge
In office
1689–1690
Preceded byRobert Brady
Succeeded byEdward Finch
In office
1701–1702
Preceded byAnthony Hammond
Succeeded byArthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey
12th President of the Royal Society
In office
1703–1727
Preceded byJohn Somers
Succeeded byHans Sloane
Master of the Mint
In office
1699–1727
1696–1699Warden of the Mint
Preceded byThomas Neale
Succeeded byJohn Conduitt
2nd Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
In office
1669–1702
Preceded byIsaac Barrow
Succeeded byWilliam Whiston
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Political partyWhig
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