Isaac Newton's Accomplishments
When most people think Isaac Newton, they don’t normally think of what all he has accomplished. People think of Isaac Newton as just another ordinary human being. Well, what they don’t know is that he has gone very far in his years of living. Now, Isaac Newton is not around anymore, but most of what he has accomplished is still here to this day. Honestly, I wish that I could have been around 1600’s so that I could have met him. Just imagine how amazing that would be.
Isaac Newton was born as a premature child on December 25, 1642 and was believed to be the greatest person who have ever lived. Newton was a mathematician, English physicist, theologian, and an astronomer who laid the foundation for the principles of classical mechanics and worked …show more content…
In June 1661, Newton left Woolsthorpe to enroll at Cambridge University. This incredible man was deeply engrossed in private study during his undergraduate years, and developed his first theories in calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation.
Newton’s first major public scientific achievement was designing and constructing a reflective telescope in 1668. Newton’s became a professor at Cambridge and was required to deliver an annual course of lectures and chose his initial topic to be optics. Isaac Newton used his telescope to help him study optics and to help himself prove his theory of light and color.
Newton’s three basic laws of motion helped him arrive at his theory of gravity. Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that two objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction that’s proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.These laws helped explain nearly every other motion in the …show more content…
They also allowed him to calculate the mass of each planet, the flattening of the Earth at the poles and the bulge at the equator, and how the gravitational pull of the sun and moon create the Earth’s tides. Newton came up with the conclusion that gravity kept the universe balances and brought heaven and Earth together in one amazing equation.
In 1696 Newton was able to attain the government job that he had been wanting to an extremely long amount of time. Warden of the Mint permanently moved to London to live with his niece, Catherine Barton, after he acquired this title. Catherine Barton was the mistress of a high-ranking government official, Lord Halifax, who had Newton promoted, is the master of Mint in 1699. As master of the Mint, Newton moved the British currency from the silver to the gold
Isaac Newton was born as a premature child on December 25, 1642 and was believed to be the greatest person who have ever lived. Newton was a mathematician, English physicist, theologian, and an astronomer who laid the foundation for the principles of classical mechanics and worked …show more content…
In June 1661, Newton left Woolsthorpe to enroll at Cambridge University. This incredible man was deeply engrossed in private study during his undergraduate years, and developed his first theories in calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation.
Newton’s first major public scientific achievement was designing and constructing a reflective telescope in 1668. Newton’s became a professor at Cambridge and was required to deliver an annual course of lectures and chose his initial topic to be optics. Isaac Newton used his telescope to help him study optics and to help himself prove his theory of light and color.
Newton’s three basic laws of motion helped him arrive at his theory of gravity. Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that two objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction that’s proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.These laws helped explain nearly every other motion in the …show more content…
They also allowed him to calculate the mass of each planet, the flattening of the Earth at the poles and the bulge at the equator, and how the gravitational pull of the sun and moon create the Earth’s tides. Newton came up with the conclusion that gravity kept the universe balances and brought heaven and Earth together in one amazing equation.
In 1696 Newton was able to attain the government job that he had been wanting to an extremely long amount of time. Warden of the Mint permanently moved to London to live with his niece, Catherine Barton, after he acquired this title. Catherine Barton was the mistress of a high-ranking government official, Lord Halifax, who had Newton promoted, is the master of Mint in 1699. As master of the Mint, Newton moved the British currency from the silver to the gold