Sir Isaac Newton

Thesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge left by his predecessors, 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 the person society knows him as in this day and age. The beginning of these obstacles started at birth for Newton.

Isaac was born premature on Christmas Day 1642, in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, 7 miles south of Grantham in Lincolnshire. It is said that “Because Galileo, . . . had died that year, a significance attaches itself to 1642” (Westfall 1). Though his father had died before Isaac was born, he was given his father’s name. He was born into a farming family that had worked their way slowly up the “social ladder”. The Newton’s were one of the few families to prosper in Lincolnshire (Westfall 1). At the age of three Isaac’s life would take a drastic turn.

When Isaac was three his mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried to the Reverend Barnabas Smith (Internet-newtonia). Isaac and the Reverend never got along and the Reverend would not have a child

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Using these three laws, Newton was able to figure out the way gravitational force between the earth and the moon could be calculated. If we as a people today have achieved great things, it is because we have stood upon the shoulders of the giant, Sir Isaac Newton. While at Cambridge Newton studied mathematics (Internet-newtonia). ” (Wilson online) The second law of motion was titled “motion defined in terms of mass and acceleration. “Before the advent of calculus, mathematics was concerned with static situations and could not deal with the constant change which is ever present in the word around us”(The New American Encyclopedia Vol. His intelligence is what separated him from everyone else.

As you well know, Newton was a very well rounded and intelligent man. ” (Anthony 73)

By setting up these basic calculations, Newton paved the way to understanding the theory of gravitation.

Perhaps the best way to see what Sir Isaac Newton has given us is to look at what we as a people depend on most, the computer.

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