Sir Issac Newton
Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician, was born into a poor farming family. Newton was a master of science and mathematics. He single-handedly contributed more to the development of science than any other individual in history. He discovered calculus, but his most popular discovery was gravity. Newton stated explicit principles of scientific methods, which applied universally to all branches of science. Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire as a premature infant not expected to live. His father, who he was named after, had died just three months before his birth, and Hannah Ayscough Newton, his mother, remarried when he was three and left him with his grandmother until her second husband died in 1653. Newton's mother removed him from his grammar school where he had shown little promise in his academic work after the death of his stepfather. His uncle became persuaded that he should be prepared to enter a university, and in 1661 Newton went to his uncles old college, Trinity College in Cambridge. In 1664 the Great Plague broke out in London, and the university was closed down the following year. Newton's first major public scientific achievement was the invention, design and c
Newton took in protecting the rights of the university against the illegal encroachments of James II who procured him a seat in the Convention Parliament from 1689 to 1690. In 1696 he was appointed Warden of the Mint, at a time when the government had desecrated the currency, and a strong, morally upright man was needed to deal with counterfeiters. He became Master of the Mint in 1699. Newton, having publicized himself to be a brilliant administrator, again sat in parliament in 1701 for his university, and in 1704 published Optics in English. In 1705 Queen Anne knighted Newton as the first scientist to be honored for his work and accomplishments. After being knighted Newton said, "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other talent" . His last years were spent under the care of his niece. Newton never married, but was at his happiest in the role of patron to younger scientists, and in 1703 as a tyrannical president of the Royal Society. Newton died in 1727. Before Newton's death he said, "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science" . Newton lays at rest in Westminster Abbey and his tomb is inscribed with these words: 'Mortals! Rejoice at so great ornament to the human race!' of motion states that 'every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it'. Newton's second law of motion states that 'the acceleration of an object is dependent upon two variables, the net force acting u
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