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Isaac Newton Research Paper

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Isaac Newton born on January 4th, 1643 in the hamlet of Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire England. He was the only child of a local farmer. Newton’s father died before he was even born and his mother left him living with his grandparents by the time he was 3 years old. His mother left him when she got re-married. This had such an impact in his life that when he grew older he once said that he wanted to burn his step-father and mother in their house. At the age of 12, he reunited with his mother. By this time Isaac’s mother had 3 more children of his stepfather that had died sometime that year. Newton’s mother wanted him to get out of school to become a farmer. However, he failed miserably, as he knew that was something he didn’t want to do. Newton …show more content…

He spent most of his time reading in his room. Newton became really close to his roommate John Wickens, they both decided to stay away from all the College life temptation and they didn’t like people that put pleasure before work. After attending Trinity College for a couple of years, the great plague that was ravaging Europe had come to Cambridge, and the university closed in 1665. Newton had to go back home and study privately. Newton is considered the founder of the modern science. Newton created a whole new branch of math, called calculus. He figured out the composition of light. Newton modified a telescope and made it a whole new one. Newton also gave the laws of gravity and motion. Besides being a scientist and mathematician, Newton was also into religion. Most people have heard the story of Newton, the one were he claims that his idea of gravity came from an apple. This story is told something like this… Newton was outside his house under a tree reading, suddenly an apple fell from the tree and he started think about the force that pulled that apple down. During this time everybody thought that the planets and the way they circled the earth was by the machine theory, they thought it all worked like a machine. Newton, he was not very convinced that. He started predicting that the force pulling the apple down and keeping the moon and orbit around the earth were all the

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