The world how we know it today would not have been possible without the revolutionary ideas and discoveries of humans such as Sir Isaac Newton. He used mathematics to explain the world around him, and his understanding of the universe and the world came from his equations. His discoveries are still relevant today and thanks to him, three centuries later humans would be able to go to space using his laws of motion and gravity. Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on December 25, 1642, (January 4, 1643, New Style) and died in London on March 20, 1727 (March 31, New Style) at the age of 84. He is one of the most famous figures from the scientific revolution of the 17th century. During his lifetime, he gifted humanity …show more content…
After her return, she decided to take Newton out of school in order for him to manage her now considerably big property and fulfill his birthright as a farmer. Fortunately for Newton, as Richard S. Westfall stated in his article “Sir Isaac Newton”, “It quickly became apparent, however, that this would be a disaster, both for the estate and for Newton. He could not bring himself to concentrate on rural affairs—set to watch the cattle, he would curl up under a tree with a book”. This huge mistake was corrected and for the sake of humanity, Newton was taken back to the school where he previously studied and started to prepare to attend Trinity College, Cambridge. Newton was ready to matriculate at Trinity college by June 1661 and being almost 19 years old, he was somewhat older than his classmates because of his interrupted …show more content…
This series of events led him to cut off contact with his colleagues and he entered into complete isolation. During that time, he started experimenting with alchemy, which helped him understand nature from a different perspective. In 1679, Hooke started an exchange of letters about with questions about planetary motion. And “Newton later confessed that the correspondence with Hooke led him to demonstrate that an elliptical orbit entails an inverse square attraction to one focus—one of the two crucial propositions on which the law of universal gravitation would ultimately