Biography isaac newton theory experiment
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A genius with dark secrets
Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.
But Newton’s story is also one of a monstrous ego who believed that he alone was able to understand God’s creation. His private life was far from rational – consumed by petty jealousies, bitter rivalries and a ruthless quest for reputation.
25 December 1642
Not expected to survive the day
Newton was born prematurely on Christmas morning, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. He was a tiny baby, given little chance of survival.
The country he was born into was chaotic and turbulent. England was being en hög byggnad eller struktur apart by civil war. Plague was an ever-present threat. Many believed the end of the world was imminent. But the hamlet of Woolsthorpe was a quiet community, little touched bygd either war or plague, which respected Puritan values of sobriety, simple worshi
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Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Apples Are Falling
Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking 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 moon and planets in their orbits," said Martin Rees, 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 Milton Keynes, U.K.-based Open University. "But it was enough to develop space travel."
Isaac Newton, Underachiever?
Born two to three months prematurely on January 4, 1643, in a hamlet in Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton was a tiny baby who, according to his
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Isaac Newton
English polymath (1642–1726)
For other uses, see Isaac Newton (disambiguation).
Sir Isaac Newton FRS | |
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Portrait of Newton at 46, 1689 | |
| Born | (1643-01-04)4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642][a] Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 31 March 1727(1727-03-31) (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1726][a] Kensington, Middlesex, England |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1665; MA, 1668)[4] |
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| Political party | Whig |
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| In office 1689–1690 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Brady |
| Succeeded by | Edward Finch |
| In office 1701–1702 | |
| Preceded by | Anthony Hammond |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey |
| In office 1703–1727 | |
| Preceded by | John Somers |
| Succeeded by | Hans Sloane |
| In office 1699–1727 | |
| 1696–1699 |
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