Specific Purpose: To give honor and recognition for his scientific achievements.
Thesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge he left behind, Sir Isaac Newton was able to develop calculus, natural forces, and optics. From birth to early childhood, Isaac Newton overcame many personal, social, and mental hardships. It is through these experiences that helped create him to be the person we know today, that is why he is worthy of the Scientist of the Century award.
Introduction
1. Attention-getter: "What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean." said Isaac Newton
2. Establishment of ethos: As a former cell mate of Isaac Newton for 5 years with a 23 hour lock down, I really got to know
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B. Sir Isaac Newton used prisms to show that sunlight was made up of all the colors of the rainbow. This proved that the ancient Greeks ideas about light were wrong. 1. Although he's not the first to consider using a curved mirror instead of a lens, Newton was the first to successfully construct a telescope using this principle, a principle still used today in many telescopes
(Internal summary/Transition: Now that I’ve provided a few examples of Isaac Newton’s many inventions and discoveries, I will now talk about Isaac Newton’s many personal, social, and mental hardships.)
II. Main idea 2: After many years of hard work, little rest, and plenty of controversy, Newton's health failed suffering some mental illnesses and his theories being rejected by many scientist of his time. A. He suffered his second nervous breakdown in 1693. He also suffered recurrent attacks of depression, a mental illness he must have suffered from throughout most of his life.
B. Although he engaged in arguments with scientists who dared dispute the correctness of his ideas, he acquired more admirers than critics, both inside and outside the English scientific community.
1. Newton eventually won acceptance because his theories produced better practical results. For instance, his theory correctly predicted the return of Halley’s Comet.
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Sir Isaac Newton, an astronomer, mathematician, and a scientist is described to be "one of the greatest names in history of human thought.” According to biography.com, Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, and was interested in creating mechanic toys as a young boy (2016). He even invented an impressive, small windmill, which would grind wheat and corn, at a young age. Newton explored beyond the secrets of light and color, found gravity, and even discovered a new form of mathematics, called calculus. It was Newton who had explained why a rock is heavier than a pebble, and how earth's gravity could hold the moon in its orbit. Isaac Newton’s discoveries proved him
Isaac Newton discovered the 3 Laws of Motion and shaped the world doing so(Weistein Eric W.). Isaac Newton was and english physicist and mathematician. HIs parent sent him to Cambridge to study to be a preacher. He soon dropped out. Later on in his life he
Newton’s writings have had a profound effect on modern day science, astronomy, physics, as well as scientific reason. His discoveries and laws set a foundation of universal guidelines that enabled others to conduct experiments based on their own observations, while he also explained how the natural world functioned. In his ‘Principia’ he listed his set of four rules of scientific reasoning. The four rules include: 1) we are to admit no more causes of natural things such as both true and sufficient to explain their experiences. 2) The same natural effects must be assigned to the same causes. 3) Qualities of bodies are to be esteemed as universal. 4) Propositions deduced from observation of phenomena contradict them (wolframresearch). This method of reasoning set the framework for the quest of answers during the Enlightenment. Today his four laws are known as the scientific
I think that Newton changed the world and how we see it. Without his discoveries we would not know how gravity or how his other discoveries work. With the prisms he made a point that white light is made up of colors mixed together. If he did not know how white light is made out of we would never know what a rainbow would be or what the world rainbow means at all. If Newton never found out how gravity or his other discoveries work, todays society we would have no description of light students will get harder physics test and math test.
Newton and optics, in 1968 Newton made the first reflecting telescope, following the reflecting telescope in 1971 he discovered the spectrum, he finalized all his discoveries of optics in 1776.He wrote books on these discoveries defining optics,
At its climax the scientific revolution would bring enormous change with the revolutionary contributions made by Isaac Newton. Newton, building on previous works produced the concepts of gravity, and he developed the three laws of motion which could be accurately proved through mathematical calculations. These discoveries about the natural world would serve to mend past uncertainties which in turn gave people real hope. It was the beginning of an end of Europe’s dark times and the birth of many new innovations and developments that were to come in the eighteenth century. It was truly a new age where through reason one could become fully become enlightened.
Sir Isaac Newton has been repeatedly portrayed since the last quarter of his life as practically peerless as a natural philosopher. Newton 's achievements were unquestionably useful, diverse and exceptionally inspired (although not all of his work has endured or has been considered valuable1). Fara recounts contemporary, repeated declarations of his seemingly unbelievable genius from elite figures such as X and Voltaire2. This theme has continued in popular culture, mostly unchallenged, to the present day. FIND NEWTONIAN MOMENT. Even within academic accounts, praise is still unusually superlative. For example, Westfall has called the Principalia Mathematica (1686) the “culmination of the scientific revolution.3”Principalia was merely the crowning achievement in an outstanding career in natural philosophy that eventually helped to enhance emerging intellectual fields, from chemistry to calculus to astronomy.
He even got a prism and saw how when light hits an angle on a prism, it can create colors. He created a telescope (which was useful and gave sharper vision) and observed light. He had written books on light too. "Newton was also fascinated by light" (Carla Mooney). He was usually fascinated by machinery, but the light was a curious thing to him and he wanted to observe it. He was very smart too. "Isaac Newton has been called the greatest scientist ever lived" (Carla Mooney). However, Newton didn't have any test subjects, so he conducted them on
History has had its fair share of phenomenal scientists, but none can overshadow the genius of Sir Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643. His father died before he was born and he lived in Colsterworth in Lincolnshire with his grandparents and three siblings. Isaac Newton was know to be quite secluded as a young boy. Young Newton had a knack for model making and art, for example, he made a working model of a windmill at some point in his childhood. He also made other things such as dolls furniture and water clocks. Isaac’s grandparents sent him to king’s school in grantham. At the age of eighteen, Newton attended Cambridge. He was a major contributor to the scientific revolution alongside numerous other great scientists
Although it is irrefutable that both Aristotle and Isaac Newton are great scientists and have made phenomenal contributions to scientific development, their scientific methods vary to a large extent. With reference to Scientific Method in Practice, Aristotle investigated the world by using inductions from observations to infer general principles and deductions from those principles to conduct further observational research (Gauch, 2003), while in Isaac Newton's Scientific Method, the author describes Newton’s method as aiming to turn theoretical questions into ones which can be explained by mathematical ideas and measurement from phenomena, and to establish that propositions inferred from phenomena are provisionally guides to further research
James Gleick provides us with a basic view of Isaac Newton and how his works influenced the scientific world though his laws of motion and universal gravitation. His main goal was to provide us with a more human understanding of this great scientist, which we do not see represented in textbooks and other specialized bibliographies. He does this by discussing some of Isaac Newton’s letters and unpublished books. Before reading this book, I thought of Isaac Newton as a divine scientist who was flawless. While reading this book, it shocked me to know that Newton acted like a
Isaac Newton was born in a time were a lot of ideas and concepts were being discovered but he discovered one of the
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most important scientists in history with Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Galileo. He was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643 and died March 31, 1727 in London, England. During his lifetime Newton discovered and invented many things, while also studying lots of classic philosophers and astronomers. Newton’s wide range of discoveries formed the basis for modern physics. Not only did he give us the three laws of motion, but he also gave us the origins of color and calculus. These discoveries play big roles in our world today.
Newton had given the world what we now know as physics. For the past three hundred years Newtonian Mechanics have been taught to every student aspiring to elevate their minds. Newtonian Mechanics were the end all to the questions that had plagued thinkers since the beginning of time. The key difference is that Newton was never exposed to the world of science that technology had made prevalent to the likes of an Einstein or Hawking, or even my colleague studying neuro surgery at John’s Hopkins University. When Newton was sitting under his apple tree conjuring up ideas for how and why he did not fly off into space or why the harder you hit something the farther it goes, technology was moving along at the rate of most people’s grandmothers in their walkers. The scientists that had surrounded Newton knew only of what they could see. Their were no people looking to the far ends of the galaxies and their were no people looking in to the unseen cells that make up everything that we can see. Basically, Newton did not have a reason to explain what he was not aware of. He did have quite good reason, however, to explain why he got a bump on his head from that ripe apple that no longer needed the shelter of the tree. According to Shlain, Newton set the world he knew to mechanics and set the parameters for the new and final, well what was thought to be the final paradigm of the world. Then in 1905,
Sir Isaac Newton once said, “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Aside from his countless contributions to the worlds of math and science, this may be his most important quote because it is what he based his life on—building bridges of knowledge. Throughout his life he was devoted to expanding his and others knowledge past previously known realms. Often regarded of the father of calculus, Newton contributed many notable ideas and functions to the world through his creation of calculus and the various divisions of calculus. Namely, Newton built upon the works of great mathematicians before him through their use of geometry, arithmetic and algebra to create a much more complex field that could explain many more processes in