Isaac Newton Research Paper Isaac Newton is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time and is a key figure in the scientific revolution. Newton made endless contributions to optics, and shares credit, for the invention of calculus, with Gottfried Leibniz. Newton developed the principles of modern physics and published, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which has been named the most influential book on physics. His work has been said, “to distinctly advance every branch of mathematics then studied.” (wikipedia, Isaac Newton) Sir Isaac Newton was born prematurely 1642 in Lincolnshire, England. From ages twelve through seventeen, Isaac went to the King’s School …show more content…
Researchers fought over whether Leibniz published findings of calculus before Isaac began writing anything, and if Isaac had stolen the ideas of Leibniz, without giving credit.In 1699, members of the Royal Society, which Newton was apaprt of, began to accuse Lebiniz of plagirism. It broke out in 1711 when the Royal Society finally claimed Leibniz as a fraud, and Isaac the true discoverer. The study was later doubted, when Newton wrote the study’s concluding remarks on Leibniz. The controversy lasted until Leibniz died in …show more content…
In 1679, with reference to Kepler's Laws of planetary motion, he began considering gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets. Newton came up with three laws, that explained motion and universal gravitation, that were published in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, commonly known as the Principia, in 1687. The first law of motion says, that an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in motion will remain in motion, with the same speed and in the same direction, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This law is also known as the, “law of inertia,” and basically says objects will continue what they are doing until they are affected by an unbalanced force. The second law of motion states that, acceleration is produced when force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object that is being accelerated), the greater the amount of force needed, (to accelerate the object). This can also be explained as F=M*A of force equals mass times acceleration, and is basically stating that heavier objects require more force to move the same distance as lighter