Sir Isaac Newton

Topics: Isaac Newton, Newton's laws of motion, Classical mechanics Pages: 2 (505 words) Published: July 13, 2010
Sir Isaac Newton was, among many other things, a physicist, mathematician and astronomer. Newton was born was born 3 months after the death of his father, on January 4th of 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Known commonly as the Father of Modern Science, Sir Newton’s discoveries were plenty and spanned over many different concentrations in science that he most certainly deserves the title. He helped develop the field of calculus as well as the laws of light and color and the laws of gravity and planetary motion. Sir Isaac Newton is responsible for planting the seed for many of the ideas and theories that are being developed still today.

After a rudimentary education in local schools, Newton was sent at the age of 12 to the King's School in Grantham. In 1661, at the age of 19, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge where Newton’s interest in the laws of the environment we live in began, pertaining to mathematics and sciences. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, Newton began his master’s but the college closed and he returned to Woolsthorpe and performed some basic experiments and developed his system of calculus. He also started his thinking on optics and universal gravity. He then returned to Cambridge in 1667 and quickly completed the requirements for his Master’s degree. Newton became Lucasian professor of mathematics at age 27 and stayed at Trinity in that capacity for 27 years.

My favorite research and accomplishment of Sir Isaac Newton is his work, magnum opus, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, to state the full title. Commonly know as Newton’s Principia, it was published first in Latin in 1687 and only took Newton 18 months to complete. The Principia promptly established Newton as the leading scientist of his time in the Western world. In this work he demonstrated for the first time that celestial bodies follow the laws of dynamics. He formulated the law of universal gravitation and gave mathematical solutions and support to...
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