Isaac Newton Research Paper

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Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, England. He was a smart young man. He went to the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, and The King’s College. Isaac’s professions were as a Philosopher, Astronomer, Physicist, Scientist, and lastly a Mathematician. That’s a smart man , what did I say. He was one of the greatest minds in the 17th century. He made a modern principle of physics. We still use his principles of physics even if it was published in 1687. He was the only son of a local farmer. The doctor said he was very weak; they thought he wasn’t going to survive. When he was three years old ; his mother remarried to the Barnabas Smith. Isaac went to go and live with him and living young he would maternal grandmother. …show more content…

He failed at farming, he thought farming was very dull. Eventually, he had gone back to school and finished his basic education. Since his uncle graduated from the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. So he convinced his mother to let he go to college. So he was enrolled to similar work-study in 1661. When he had arrived at the school he had the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century was already in full force. In the three years he was at the University he had been taught the standard curriculum but he was interested in it, so he wanted to go into more advance science. On his free time, he went to read the modern philosophers. He didn’t do good in his course but he started to take notes , in those notes he uses to called them "Quaestiones", because of that he had discovered the a new concept of nature and provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution. Although he didn’t graduate with honors but he won an award for the title of the scholar and four years of financial support of future education. Sadly, in 1665 the black plague has started to spread all around Europe, because of the University was forced to …show more content…

During his break from school, he had conceived the method infinitesimal calculus. In that case, it leads to a book called,” Principia” in 1687. People say that at this time he experienced his famous inspiration of gravity because of the falling apple. When illness was fading in 1667, he returned to the University and was elected to be the minor fellow in Trinity College. He wasn’t considered about the scholar. But still kept going to school and he got his Masters in Arts degree in 1669. He was 27 years old at the time. Then , Nicholas Mercator's published book on methods for dealing with infinite series. Quickly he made his own analysis and it was crazy what the results were. He shared it with his friend/ mentor Isaac Barrow. Isaac Newton published the book but didn’t include his mentor in as one of the authors. Later on, he shared the book with British mathematician John Collins. John Collins was very interested in his work he was

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