Isaac Newton
1. Newton's Life
Newton's life naturally divides into four parts: the years before he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in ; his years in Cambridge before the Principia was published in ; a period of almost a decade immediately following this publication, marked by the renown it brought him and his increasing disenchantment with Cambridge; and his final three decades in London, for most of which he was Master of the Mint. While he remained intellectually active during his years in London, his legendary advances date almost entirely from his years in Cambridge. Nevertheless, save for his optical papers of the early s and the first edition of the Principia, all his works published before he died fell within his years in London.[1]
Newton's Early Years
Newton was born into a Puritan family in Woolsthorpe, a small village in Linconshire near Grantham, on 25 December (old calendar), a few days short of one year after Galileo died. Isaac's father, a farmer, died two months before Isaac was born. When his mother Hannah married the 63 year old Barnabas Smith three years later and moved to her new husband's residence, Isaac was left behind with his maternal gra
| Sir Isaac Newton |
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Sir Isaac Newton at age 46 in Godfrey Kneller's portrait. |
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| January 4, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England |
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| March 31, Kensington, London |
Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, – March 31, ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher, who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential scientists in history.
In his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. He thus laid the groundwork for classical mechanics, also known as Newtonian mechanics, which held sway in the physical sciences until the advent of quantum mechanics around the beginning of the twentieth century. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motions of bodies on Earth and celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and predictive power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and advancement of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Among other scientific work, Newton re
Isaac Newton&#;s Life
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I INTRODUCTION
Newton, Sir Isaac (), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in ; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in , and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in He remained at the university, lecturing in most years, until Of these Cambridge years, in which Newton was at the height of his creative power, he singled out (spent largely in Lincolnshire because of plague in Cambridge) as &#;the prime of my age for invention&#;. During two to three years of intense mental effort he prepared Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) commonly known as the Principia, although this was not published until
As a firm opponent of the attempt by King James II to make the universities into Catholic institutions, Newton was elected Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge to the Convention Parliament o
Sir Issac Newton ( ) was an English mathematician, physicist and scientist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, developing new laws of mechanics, gravity and laws of motion. His work Principia Mathematica() laid the framework for the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. A great polymath, Newton&#;s investigations also included areas of optics, religion and alchemy.
Early Life of Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, in , to a relatively poor farming family. His father died three months before he was born. His mother later remarried, but her second husband did not get on with Isaac; leading to friction between Isaac and his parents. The young Isaac attended school at King’s School, Grantham in Lincolnshire (where his signature is still inscribed on the walls.) Isaac was one of the top students, but before completing his studies his mother withdrew him from school, so Isaac could work as a farmer. It was only through the intervention of the headmaster that Isaac was able to return to finish his studies; he passed his final exams with very good results and was able to go to Trinity College, Cambridge.
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