Sir Isaac Newton had a great scientific community, and many of his principles are still being used today. Isaac Newton’s life, education, and personal life, have all effected contributions to science.
Isaac Newton was born on January 4th, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. He was the only son of a farmer. At age 12, Newton had been enrolled at Kings School in Gratham, a town in Lincolnshire, England. His grandfather, who was a graduate of the university himself, convinced his mother to enroll him at Cambridge’s Trinity College, because of his innate intellectual abilities (Sir Isaac Newton, 1). During his first three years at college he found that his interests were advanced sciences. After ...view middle of the document...
In addition he had a very limited family. He was born 3 months after his father’s death (Sir Isaac Newton, 1). Also, he had two stepsisters named Hannah and Mary, and a stepbrother named Benjamin (Sir Isaac Newton, 1).
Sir Isaac Newton also made many contributions to the field of science. One of his most known works was his Universal Law of Gravitation (Isaac Newton and his Contributions to Science, 1). He received this idea after observing an apple fall from a tree. This law states that “All bodies attract to each other proportional to their mass, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them (Isaac Newton and his Contributions to Science, 1). Another one of his famous contribution was that white light is made of many colors. He was able to figure this out by shining a direct beam of light, through a prism. He observed that the light bent into the different wavelengths, known as colors, which our eyes are able to perceive. In addition to these, he also built the first reflecting telescope. However, his most well-known contribution to science is his laws of motion. They state the ways how motion acts on Earth, as well as in the universe. The first law is called the law of...
