Although Isaac's father owned property and animals which made him quite a wealthy man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name. ) Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was born. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England until 1752.
Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, we give the date of 4 January 1643 in this biography which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire.
The third period (nearly as long as the other two combined ) saw Newton as a highly paid government official in London with little further interest in mathematical research. The second period from 1669 to 1687 was the highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge. The first is his boyhood days from 1643 up to his appointment to a chair in 1669. In mathematics, Newton is still best known for his work in calculus, and for the binomial theories on exponents, as well as for establishing his method for estimating roots of a function.Biography Isaac Newton's life can be divided into three quite distinct periods. Newton also contributed greatly to the understanding of the speed of sound and empirical laws of cooling.
While even school children associate Newton with theories on gravity involving a childish story about an apple falling on his head, Newton was actually responsible for a number of elementary discoveries.Ĭhief among these are the principle of white light being made up of a spectrum of color, and his work on the first usable reflecting telescope. This helped convince most European researchers that Newtonian mechanics was a more in-depth system than that of Descartes. Newton predicted that the Earth was shaped like an oblate spheroid, which was later confirmed by the work of Maupertuis, La Condamine, and more. Newton correlated that the motion of objects on Earth could be described by the same principles. He then used those principles to outline the trajectories of comets, the tides and equinoxes, and other astronomical phenomena. He is responsible for removing all remaining doubt in his age about the heliocentric model, which he did by combining Kepler's laws of planetary motion with his own mathematical description of gravity. Principia established the laws of motion and universal gravitation, therefore dominating scientists' understanding of the universe for the next three hundred years. Newton also made important contributions to optics, and he is credited alongside Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus. His book, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), was published in 1687, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. However, his contributions to mathematics may have been more important to his career. Newton is perhaps one of the most well-known names in all of science for his theories on gravity. Newton is thought to be one of the most influential scientists in history, and was a crucial part of the scientific revolution. Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (DecemMarch 20, 1727) was a physicist and mathematician from England who was known as a "natural philosopher" in his day.
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