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Isaac Newton Accomplishments

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Sir Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the greatest physicist known to history even amongst his predecessors like Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, and others. His work mathematics, mechanics and optics contributed heavily to the development of classical mathematics. Some of his greatest accomplishments are the laws of motion, calculus (disputed), optics (to a degree) and the founding of the law of gravitation. Isaac Newton was born on December 25 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Linconshire in England.
His parents Isaac Newton who he was named after because he died months before the birth of his son and his mother was Hannah Asycough. He had two half-sisters Hannah Smith Pulington and
Mary Smith and one half-brother named Benjamin Smith. His mother remarried …show more content…

His time with his grandmother would lead him to learn how to read and write. Barnabas who had married Hannah at 63 years old died and left Hannah with their 3 children; Hannah, Mary and Benjamin at which she decided to move back to Woolsthorpe, Linconshire to be with family and to also be with her first born son, Isaac. Isaac went to Grantham boarding school where he would learn the basics of math and literature. It should be noted that Hannahs brother, Jmaes Ayscough was the Headmaster of
Grantham boarding school influenced his sister that Isaac should start getting ready for university. After a few years of more tutelage, Isaac, was accepted into Trinity College,
Cambridge, which would be the starting point of his career. During Newtons stay in Cambridge in his early years he was education in physics, logic, ethics but his curiosity carried him into the realms of other aspects of knowledge. Since he could read and write he started to read books outside the normal teachings of his field like Descartes
Opera philosphica. By then he was enthralled by other fields and started to teach himself advance mathetmatics, inspired by the works of Descartes, Wallis and ect. But his submersion

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