Isaac Newton was an important scientist in the Scientific Revolution, a time where developments in science, mathematics, astronomy, etc. were common. Isaac Newton was well known for creating the law of universal gravitation in the 17th century. Newton comes from English descent and he pondered the forces of nature. His findings literally shaped the world of physics and becoming the basic foundation of the science. Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 in Woolthorpe Manor near Grantham, England and attended King’s College then Trinity college to become a minister. His dreams of being a minister were changed after he could not pay for college. “At that time the ideas of the ancient Greek scholars still dominated what was taught in science, and …show more content…
Most believe he was sitting under the Apple tree but in reality he was observing it. “The apple is accelerated, since its velocity changes from zero as it is hanging on the tree and moves toward the ground. Thus, by Newton's 2nd Law there must be a force that acts on the apple to cause this acceleration. Let's call this force "gravity", and the associated acceleration the "acceleration due to gravity". Then imagine the apple tree is twice as high” (Vcirc). “In a 1679 letter of general correspondence to Royal Society members for contributions, Hooke wrote to Newton and brought up the question of planetary motion, suggesting that a formula involving the inverse squares might explain the attraction between planets and the shape of their orbits” (Isaac). Robert Hooke, an old college rival of Newton, wanted to prove this inverse square law just to jealously steal Isaac Newton’s fame from him. After Hooke’s inverse square law was publicized, Newton angrily tried to prove that he discovered the elliptical orbit of the planets before Hooke. Hooke responded by accusing him of plagiarism but later on this was brushed off because Hooke never proved his law. In the end, Hooke’s life unraveled and he was left with little fame, almost no credibility, and full of