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Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Apples Are Falling
• Sir Isaac Newton contributed significantly to the field of science over his lifetime. He invented calculus and provided a clear understanding of optics. But his most significant work had to do with forces, and specifically with the development of a universal law of gravitation and his laws of motion. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day to a poor farming family in Woolsthorpe, England, in At the time of Newton's birth England used the Julian calendar, however, when England adopted the Gregorian calendar in , his birthday became 4th January Isaac Newton arrived in the world only a few months after his father, Isaac Newton Sr, had died. "The boy expected to live managing the farm in the place of the father he had never known," wrote James Gleick in "Isaac Newton" (Vintage, ). However, when it became clear a farming life was not for him, Newton attended Trinity College in Cam • The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in , his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in Sir Isaac Newton is known for many scientific findings. These discoveries include the laws of motion, the theory of gravity, and basic calculus. Although Newton was predominantly known for his discoveries in mathematics and physics, he also put much effort and study into chemistry, biblical history, and optics. One of Newton's most famous writings was the Principia where he described some of his major findings of time, physics, mathematics, and calculus. Although his theories soon became universal, he faced much opposition to his early theories. Specifically, his theory of gravity faced criticism from lead
Physically, Sir Isaac Newton was not a large man. However, he had a large intellekt, as shown by his discoveries on gravity, light, motion, mathematics, and more.
Legend has it that Isaac Newton came up with gravitational theory in , or , after watching an apple fall. He asked 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 måne and planets in their orbits," Martin Rees says. He fryst vatten 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 Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K. "But it was enough to develop space travel."
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