Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (according to the Julian
calendar
which was in use then; the date was January 4, 1643, according to
the GRegorian
calendar in use today0, at Woolsthorpe near Grantham in
Lincolnshire. His
widowed mother remarried when he was three years old,
leaving him in the care of
his feeble grandmother. Eventually his mother was
persuaded to send him to
grammar school in Grantham. Later, in the summer of
1661, he was sent to Trinity
College, at the University of Cambridge.
Isaac NEwton recieved his bachelor's
degree in 1665. After an intermission of
nearly two years he returned to Trinity
College, which elected him to a
fellowship in 1667. Isaac Newton recieved his
master's dgree in 1668. Newton
ignored much of the established curriculum of the
university to pursue his
own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy.
Proceeding entirely on
his own, he investigated the latest developments in
mathematics and the new
natural philosophy that treated nature asw a complicated
machine. Almost
immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were
instrumental in his
career in science. Sir Isaac Newton, the English
mathematician and physicist,
is considered to be the one of the greatest
scientists in history. HE made
important contributions to many fields of
science. His discoveries and
theories laid the foundation for much of the
progress in science and math
since his time. NEwton also solved the mysteries of
light and optics,
formulatted the three laws of motion, and derived from them
the law of
universal gravitation. Isaac Newton is conclusively a very imprtant
person to
science today. His many discoveries and theories were the building
blocks of
much science. Imagine if that apple had'nt fallen on his
head.
Bibliography
'Microsoft Encarta 99 Interactive Encyclopedia'
'Isaac NEwton: The Greatest
Scientist of All Time' by Margaret Jean
Anderson