When little baby Isaac was born on January 4,1643 in Lilliputian English village, premature and
small enough to fit into a quart pot, he wasn't expected to survive. Over passing that, Isaac
Newton grew up a physicist and mathematician, and is considered as one of the great minds of
his century and science revolution. Isaac Newton was the most important figure in the
development of modern science. Whatever you may think of bridges, roads, cars, buildings,
every machine in the entire Industrial Revolution it owes its origin to Newton's Law. He proved
that light was not made of one color but that it was actually made of several colors arranged in a
spectrum and that this light was actually made up of waves. Many people should think that
Einstein was the significant figure in science but, Newton’s accomplishments were of
astonishingly. Albert Einstein once said, “Nature to Newton was an open book, whose letters he
could read without effort”. For starters, Newton helped developed what he called fluxions, which
is now called calculus. This concept of mathematics Newton discovered, now can be used to find
the answers to such many problems, such as finding the speed of a ball that has been thrown in
the air at any moment in the balls flight. Through his formulas, ways were found to solve areas
space occupied by anything placed along a curved surface. That was by far his greatest
accomplishment in the field of math. Also, during the same time period a German mathematician
named Gottfried Leibniz also discovered calculus. Now thanks to Newton’s and Leibniz's
mathematicians and scientists were able to enter into new elements. Newton had even postulate
by 1666,his famous three laws of motion which physics students study everywhere:
Inertia = In the absence of forces, ("body") at rest will stay at rest, and a body
moving at a constant velocity in a straight line continues doing so indefinitely.
When a force is applied to an object, it accelerates. The acceleration a is in the
direction of the force and proportional to its strength, and is also inversely
proportional to the mass being moved.(F = ma)
"The law of reaction," is stated as "to every action there exists an equal and
opposite reaction."
In that moment Newton spend time relating those laws of motion with gravity. Later with
astronomer Edmond Halley, Newton jump into the study of gravitational force in the 1670s and
'80s. The result of Newton's research was his seminal work published in 1687, the Principia,
considered by many as the greatest science book ever written. On the book Principia, Newton
breaks down the workings of the solar system into "'simple"' equations, explaining away the
nature of planetary orbits and the pull between heavenly bodies. In describing why the Moon
orbits the Earth and not vice-versa (it's because the Earth is so much heavier), the book literally
changed the way people saw the universe. He also invented the reflecting telescope. With all
these things that Newton achieve I certainly thing he change the world. Finally I leave with a
phrase that a Poet called, Alexander Pope wrote:
Nature and Nature's laws
lay hid in night;
God said, Let Newton be!
and all was light
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