Isaac newton biography education credit
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A genius with dark secrets
Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the universum. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our logisk world view.
But Newton’s story is also one of a monstruös ego who believed that he alone was able to understand God’s creation. His private life was far from rational – consumed bygd petty jealousies, bitter rivalries and a ruthless sökande eller uppdrag for reputation.
25 December 1642
Not expected to survive the day
Newton was born prematurely on Christmas morning, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. He was a tiny baby, given little chance of survival.
The country he was born into was chaotic and turbulent. England was being torn apart by civil war. Plague was an ever-present threat. Many believed the end of the world was imminent. But the by of Woolsthorpe was a quiet community, little touched by either war or plague, which respected Puritan values of sobriety, simple worshi
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Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Apples Are Falling
Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward.
"He showed that the force that makes the apple fall and that holds us on the ground is the same as the force that keeps the moon and planets in their orbits," said Martin Rees, a former president of Britain's Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science, which was once headed by Newton himself.
"His theory of gravity wouldn't have got us global positioning satellites," said Jeremy Gray, a mathematical historian at the Milton Keynes, U.K.-based Open University. "But it was enough to develop space travel."
Isaac Newton, Underachiever?
Born two to three months prematurely on January 4, 1643, in a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton was a tiny baby who, according to his
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Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe, England. For most of this childhood he was raised by his grandmother and went to a grammar school. At school, he learned Latin, Ancient Greek, and maths. His mother wanted him to be a farmer, but Isaac hated farming. At the age of 18, Isaac went to the University of Cambridge. His uncle had previously studied there and recommended him to the university.
Isaac worked as a servant to pay his way at college for a few years until he won a scholarship. When he was 22, Isaac’s college closed because of the Great Plague. He spent 2 years back at his mother’s home and continued to work on his ideas about maths and the world around him.
Isaac did important work in the area of optics, the science of light. By using a prism, he discovered that white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. From this, he worked out that this would cause a problem for refracting telescopes. The white light would separate slightly into its spectrum of colours a