Sir Isaac Newton's Major Accomplishments

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Sir Isaac Newton was born at wools throne manner in Woolsthrope by Colsterworth, United Kingdom in December of 1642.He was born just three months after the death of his biological father. Then at age three his mother left him with his maternal grandma to go live with her new husband.issac despised his stepfather and somewhat his mother for marrying him and admitted to threatening to burn their house over them. After moving to live with his grandmother Isaac buried himself in books and education. It was from their in 1661 at the age of nineteen he was admitted to the Cambridge University. From their Isaac went on to excel through his courses and graduate just four years later in 1665.after graduating Newton stayed at Cambridge to further his …show more content…

After years of work and studies newton yet again reveals another great discovery when Edmund Halley gave newton a visit in 1684 regarding the planetary motion.Newton met withj Halley and thus promised him to send his calculations and theorys on planetary motion over to him.Durin gthe procces of keeping his promise newton produced his de moto of 1684.Later stemming from that he released his most important and known piece of literature Principia.Although Sir Isaac Newton's books and manuscripts he produced were some of his most prestigous accomplishments his most important things to come out of his life were the creation of the many laws he discovered through is studies.Three important ones were Newtons three laws of motion.The first stating that any object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force and any object inmotion will stay in motion at a constant unless acted upon by outside forces, and this is often called the law of inertia.The second law states that acceleration is produced when force is exerted on to a mass.So the greater the mass od the object is the greater the force it needs to subjected to accelerate.The third and final of Newtons three laws of motion states that for every action that occurs their is a equal reciprocal action to occur.In adition to Newtons three laws of motion he also produced another very well known law, The universal law of gravitation.This law stated that any two bodies present in the universe will attract eachother and this attraction will be directly poportional to their masses and inversely porportional to the square of the distance between