Sir Isaac
Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, scientist and a genius who
brought a scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Newton is one of
the most influential scientists who ever lived. His main work, written in 1685
in scientific contributions, is Principia Mathematica. In a 2005 Royal Society
survey, scientists found Newton to be a more influential scientist than Einstein.
Isaac Newton Birth and Childhood
Newton was
born on 25 December 1642 in Woolsthorpe village, West Lincolnshire, England on
Christmas day. Newton's father had died two months before he was born. When he
was only 3 years old, his mother had remarried and left him. He was then looked
after by his grandmother, when Newton's stepfather died, when his mother
returned to Woolsthorpe and asked him to help Newton in family farming, but
Newton preferred to study farming.
Isaac Newton Education Facts
His basic
education was done in the local school in his village. When he was 12 years
old, he went to study at King's School in Grantham, England for his primary
education. There he lived in the house of a pharmacist named Clarke. Newton
loved Clarke's chemical library and laboratory. He built mechanical devices to
entertain Clarke's daughter, including a live mouse, floating lanterns, and
windmills powered by sundials.
At the age
of 19, he entered Trinity College in England and obtained a bachelor's degree
in 1665. He also wanted to get a master's degree but had to return to
Woolsthorpe due to plague disease. Where he lived from 1666 to 1667. Here he
continued to perform his basic experiments, as well as working on his thinking
about the law of gravitation and the calculus theories. Then he returned to
Cambridge to complete his master's degree in mathematics and then began to
expand his research. His professor of mathematics was greatly influenced by
him, in 1669 his professor resigned his position for another job and asked
Newton to take his place, after which Newton became a professor of mathematics.
Isaac Newton Career
Newton's an experiment carried out many experiments in his career which are as follows –
Isaac Newton optics theory
From 1670 to
1672 Newton gave lectures on the subject of optics. Newton's main attraction
was optics, in which he discovered the effectiveness of refractories of light.
He demonstrated a device that enables remote objects to be seen by bending
light rays through a lens. On the basis of the discovery of the nature of light
and its properties, he told that 'white light is a mixture of light of many
colours'. This is known as Newton's colour theory. Many materialists have
supported the explanation of pure wave for their divergence of light.
In 1704 he
elaborated his theory of the optimum particles of optics light, in which he
stated that light is made up of superfluous particles while fluid is made up of
ordinary particles.
Isaac Newton contribution to force
In 1675,
based on the chemical ideas of attraction and repulsion between particles,
Newton found that there could be the presence of a god to transmit forces
between any particles. He did this idea because he believed in religious
thoughts and the divine power of God, because of this he also expressed God in
his thoughts. Later he defined this idea as the action and reaction of force.
Isaac Newton's mechanics and
gravitation theory
In 1679,
Newton again explained his Principia working on mechanics in another version.
Newton gained international acclaim for the Principia. Edmund Healey helped and
encouraged the Principia to publish. One day Newton was sitting under the tree,
when an apple fell on him from the tree and he started thinking about it, why
it fell down, it can also go up, this is what gave birth to his scientific
discovery and gravity thinking. In 1684, Newton completed his calculation on
gravity. Edmund Halley, the famous astronomer and mathematician, visited
Newton. Halley wanted Newton’s help to solve a problem he was facing one
of his experiments. He asked Newton to explain to him the path in which a
planet moved around the sun. Halley didn’t know that Newton had already solved
this question. Halley was impressed by Newton and encouraged him to share these
theories with the world. His major success was when he released the book ‘The
Mathematical Principle of Natural Philosophy’ in 1687. The book contains the
three laws of motion that Newton stated were so relevant that in more than 200
years, there was no need to improve them.
Isaac Newton Awards and Accomplishments
Newton
achieved the following achievements in his life:
Newton gave
the binomial theorem, the binomial theorem called calculus, and a new formula
for the value of pi in 1665. This is included in Newton's mathematical
achievements, in addition to the method he discovered in mathematics, today we
know it as Newton's method. He also defined the theory of finite difference,
classification and use of indexes, which are used to derive equations in
geometry, all of which are among Newton's achievements.
In 1701
Newton was also an MP for England. In 1703, Newton became the president of the
Royal Society after Robert Hooke passed away.
At the time of the parliamentary elections in 1705, Queen Anne was
awarded the title of Newton by her political contributions, as a master of mint
and for her scientific work.
Isaac Newton Controversy
The Calculus the controversy that took place between Newton and Gottfried. In this, Newton said
that he started working on a form of calculus in 1666, but this is not
mentioned in the publication of that year. While Gottfried began working on his
version of Calculus in 1674, he seemed to have given this formula first.
However, Newton later interpreted calculus in his 1687 book Principia, article
1, as a geometry compilation.
Newton's Personal Life and Death
Newton was of the more religious tendency, he also wrote research related to literary
interpretation in the Bible. He died on March 27, 1727, in London, England. He
was buried in Westminster Abbey. Even after Newton's death, there is no
shortage in his fame even today he is a relevant scientist. Newton never
married. He was one of greatest scientist alongside masterminds like Albert
Einstien and Galileo.
Isaac Newton Quotes
- If
I say that I have seen more of anything than others, it means that I have seen
and understood things more by riding on the shoulders of those people.
- I
don't know how or what the world will look like to me, but I feel like seeing a child who is playing on the edge of the sea and changing himself and that is a
beautiful appearance It holds But I think that the great truth is still far
away from me.
- We
have built a lot of walls for ourselves, but the number of bridges is still
very small to strengthen them.
- My
behaviour and my application to do any work is my success, I do not have any
great power in me, I have got the strength as usual.
- The
truth can never be found in the greater convenience or abundance of things or
the luxury of the rich, the truth can always be found only in simplicity.
