In his first book, he failed to provide sufficient explanations to his discoveries, so he sought to address this and other concerns by preparing a further edition. Here, I can see the dedication of Isaac Newton to his research and his passion to unite knowledge and belief. From the previous lesson, I learned about Newton’s religious belief and how it pushed him to study Science to fully understand God and His creations.
The perseverance of Newton was astounding because he didn’t give up at his first publication and continue to make the second edition of his book that has emendations and additions. I realized that if I can’t make something perfect for the first try then I could make it better a second or a third time. Also, He doesn’t do anything half-heartedly and that is something I need to do if I don’t want a half-hearted results.
Regarding his book Principia, I observed that it is full of words unlike the books that we have right now that are full of calculations and illustrations that make them easy to understand. The words also used are very different from what I’m used …show more content…
What he called the "bulk" is what we would call the "volume". What he is saying is, more briefly: mass = density χ volume. In the second definition he used “the quantity of motion” which is now we call as the momentum and which arise from velocity and mass. I observed that in his definition he already used the word velocity. What he is saying in this definition is, momentum = velocity χ mass. The Principia also contains the Newton's laws of motion, Newton's law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion. However, as Newton admitted, this was purely mathematical analysis but he proved his hypotheses beyond reasonable doubt. While he was accepted by other people still he had critics that objected that his force of gravity had no logical basis--that it was an essentially supernatural notion. His critics even accused him of atheism. Here, I saw the reality that even you are a well-known person you can’t please everybody. Not that being critical is wrong but I should use this as an inspiration to do better and prove my critics that I am