Isaac Newton And The Royal Society Ibrahim Noor The Royal society was the biggest and perhaps one of the only scientific organizations in newtons time. Isaac Newton was a scientist who had many finding concerning light. Newton was just discovering a new thing with light. He passed a beam of light through a prism and it ended up splitting into many colors. He sent a series of letter to the Royal society about his findings. However, the head of the Royal Society, Robert Hooke, continuously turned down his theory and even said that he had already thought of that himself. Hooke and Isaac had a huge rivalry over this and many more discoveries. Overall, Newton became a member of the Royal Society, Robert Hooke was the lead and he made …show more content…
Most of the great scholars of the age belonged to the Royal Society, like the astronomer Edmund Halley (Named Halley's Comet); the chemist Robert Boyle; the architect and designer of St. Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren; and the greatest of the Restoration poets, John Dryden. There was also Robert Hooke, who discovered the cell, established many important experiments to scientific research, and did pioneering work in optics, gravitation, paleontology, architecture, and more. He is also known for being bitter rivals with Isaac Newton. The man who discovered and explained Newton developed the three laws of motion, discovered gravitation, his discovery of calculus led the to more powerful methods of solving mathematical problems, his work in optics included the study of white light and the discovery of the color spectrum. It was his experiments with light that first made him famous with the Society. Why were these two great minds rivals? Simple, to be …show more content…
This discoveries made him famous with the society, but Hooke, wanting more fame, said he had thought of it already, although he did not have any proof. This led to Isaac being victorious in that. Anyway, why did Hooke do this? Robert Hooke was a particularly important link in this chain. By the 1670s, he had support his belief that the Sun and the planets were attracted to each other, and this attraction grew as they got closer to each other. He considered the idea of the inverse square law to describe the relationship in the distance of celestial bodies (Bodies of matter in space) and their gravitational attraction. More than any other scientist before Newton, Hooke seems to have argued for gravity as a universal force. With Principia later on, Newton wrote out later gave him credit for it. So in this sense Hooke did have the theories. So the fact was mattering on who was the one to prove these theories correctly. One amazing thing about Newton is how he never stopped to further prove him theory if he had enough, His thoughts were that he should start making new discoveries and that arguing was a time consuming