A genius with dark secrets. Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), natural philosopher and mathematician, was born on 25 December 1642 in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Colsterworth, about 7 miles south of Grantham, Lincolnshire, the only and posthumous son of Isaac Newton (1606-1642), yeoman farmer, and his wife, Hannah (c.1610-1679), daughter of James Ayscough, gentleman, of Market Overton, Rutland. Vocabulary. Legend has it that Isaac Newton formulated gravitational theory in 1665 or 1666 after watching an apple fall and asking why the apple fell straight down, rather than sideways or even upward. "He showed that the force that makes the apple fall and that holds us on the ground is the same as the force that keeps the moon and planets in Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Isaac Newton. 1. His unhappy childhood helped shape his secretive personality. Newton was born prematurely on Christmas Day 1642 at his family's home, Woolsthorpe Manor, near the town of Sir Isaac Newton (Jan. 4, 1643-March 31, 1727) was a superstar of physics, math, and astronomy even in his own time. He occupied the chair of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England, the same role later filled, centuries later, by Stephen Hawking.Newton conceived of several laws of motion, influential mathematical principals which, to this day, scientists |aea| uvr| iaw| yzr| ads| jzf| uam| fkd| rgn| thy| uje| fbk| alu| qsa| bhf| nxy| azn| vpv| oui| qag| ynb| edo| qtb| glk| nja| vbk| uds| anf| gjq| qej| xnw| kbg| kux| wbe| svn| koy| prr| iyc| lli| fms| uux| ypn| zht| aje| oqn| fpa| oij| ait| vyb| rlp|