Isaac+Newton

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me”-Isaac Newton (Brainy Quotes). Isaac Newton had one of the most incredible minds in the world (Brown). He was also known as one of the greatest scientists of all time. He gave a plethora of contributions and ideas to science. He was a mathematician and a great physicist that studies for years and years. He would be able to describe anything perfectly and would say how or why it was like that (Brown).  Isaac Newton was born in 1642 and died in 1727 (Hatch). He was born on Christmas day near Nottingham, and he was premature when he came into the world (Karwatka). His family was very poor and could not afford many luxurious things (Hatch). Isaac Newton’s family left him on the day he was born and was given to his grandma to raise him (Karwatka). His mother left him for another man named Barnabas Smith (Lamont). When he died, his mother came back to him with two step siblings (Hatch).  Although many scientists in the world do not believe in god, Isaac Newton believed in god. In his later years he went to Trinity College and earned his bachelor’s degree (Lamont). He was taken out of college for a year or two by his mother and was forced to start farming (Hatch). He was friends with many other famous scientists that were there during his time. After a couple of years at the Trinity College, he was elected the mayor (Weisstein). Although he was very smart, he was very paranoid and often thought that his friends would plot against him (Karwatka). Isaac Newton had many severe nervous break downs which would keep him in bed for weeks and at time even months. He also was affected greatly from all the experiments he was doing because some of the doctors found great amounts of mercury in him (Iliffe). Although Isaac Newton was famous during his time, he was still very insecure and wanted his privacy (Lamont). When he was sick, he thought his friends Locke and Pepys were against him (Weisstein). And afterward he may have told them that he thought of this (Brown).
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 * Personal Background **

 Isaac Newton was really different personality wise. At times he would change how he acted and be very different towards other people. He was a really insecure person and would act on what someone would tell him. If someone said something bad about him he would get depressed and sometimes even mad (Hatch). Another way to put it is that he was very sensitive to criticism (Weisstein). Isaac newton was very observant and noticed the smallest things. For example, when the apple fell on his head he thought about gravity and thus came up with his theory (Karwatka).  Isaac Newton was also very vindictive, an unreasonable desire for revenge. An example would be when he thought Leibniz had stolen his idea for calculus and wanted him to be gone (Hatch). He was not always as bad as others thought him to be. Isaac Newton was also known as a very kind person that would help out if the person was in need. He was very generous as well because of the things he gave to others (Illife). Sometimes others would also think that Isaac Newton was very aggressive and could be very violent at the same time (Hatch). He would have nervous breakdowns at times and they would affect him severely. For example, he would have to stay in bed for days and sometimes even weeks.
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 Isaac Newton had many obstacles to be what he is known as today. First of all, he was born into a very poor family. And his father passed away before he was even born and his mother left him to his grandma while she left for another man to marry (Karwatka). Another thing was that Isaac was very weak and his mother pulled him out of school so that he could become a farmer like his step father (Hatch). Other obstacles were that he had to create the first reflecting telescope to be able to continue his research on chromatic aberration. Another thing that he had to invent in order to continue some more research was calculus. Although these are important, the next few are his main obstacles.  He also had many severe disorders that stopped him from being able to interact with the other people normally. For example, he had severe nervous disorder which sometimes kept him from being able to speak in front of others while giving a lecture etc. (Iliffe). Many other things happened to him that stopped him from attending school and his university classes. For example, when the plague was out in the streets, most of the universities shut down including his (Lamont). A plethora of things that also stopped him from attending school included him having a severe mental breakdown and having mass amounts of mercury in his body (Weisstein). Isaac Newton worked through these obstacles. It was thought that creating calculus was easy because he was one of the greatest scientists known. These were all of his obstacles that may have caused him to do less than he really could.  Isaac Newton had many great and outstanding achievements as a scientist. He was one of the first scientists to study the chromatic aberrations. Doing this opened up a way for other scientists to study these things as well. Another major accomplishment of Isaac Newton’s is that he created the first reflecting telescope for his university (Karwatka). After sometime of studying and a couple of years, he had new accomplishments that made him famous and are why he is known as a great scientist today (Hatch). He was one of the first to come up with calculus which leads him to having fame during his time although he was a very insecure person (Karwatka).  Isaac Newton was one day just sitting under the base of the tree when suddenly an apple falling by the force of gravity hit his head and he had a huge realization. After he came up with the laws of gravity which is widely known to the world. After a friend of his at the Cambridge University talked to him about astronomy, he started to study the gravitational force from 1670 to the 1680’s. After a decade of studying the gravitational force, he published his book known as Principia in 1687. This book has been considered one of the greatest scientific books of all. His book Principia went into detail about why the universe is how it is like today (Whipp).  In Isaac Newton’s book Principia he talks about the universe and how it functions. Throughout the book Newton breaks down the solar system into simple equations and makes it very simple. He explains why the planets and the asteroids orbit around the sun and how. He also explains why the moon orbits the Earth and not the other way around. In other words he made this book as simple as he could by breaking it down into equations and explaining every bit of it (Whipp). Isaac Newton is most famous for creating the laws of inertia and coming up with the scientific method. He was the person in his time that revolutionized physics and helped other scientists learn where to begin (Gabriner). He was also the person that made the three laws of motion which taught the people of the world about gravity etc. Isaac Newton was one of many people that had thought of the Binomial Theorem which is really important in geometry and algebra today. He was one of the first to learn about the white lights which lead him to create the reflecting telescope to help him do further research on them (Weisstein). He is one of the most well-known scientists in the world. Isaac Newton is known to have contributed to science more than any other person in the world (Lamont). References
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