Isaac Newton By Courtney May

About Isaac Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a great mathematician and a great physicist, and probably the most incisive thinker ever known. He chiefly established that natural phenomena generally follow determinate mathematical laws in demonstrating consistent laws of motion, of gravity and of other phenomena. He produced his black box theory of science as explaining only how things happen but not why things happen. Newton may have seen that as simply a more rigorous definition of experimental science from William Gilbert's earlier requirement that science could not go beyond what can be deduced directly from experience and experiment. (Though supported by some other physicists, and by George Berkeley in his 1721 De Motu, Newton's black box physics was 're-interpreted' by many like Einstein as a 'dead-matter plus ether or force field' why physics). Newton's main works were his Latin 1687 Philosophize Naturalist Principia Mathematical, and The Optics published in English in 1704 and in Latin in 1706

Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643, at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. At the time of Newton's birth, England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642. Newton was born three months after the death of his father, Young life

Invented Telescope 1666 Isaac Newton begins work on the laws of mechanics and gravitation. Isaac Newton studies the spectrum of light.  1668 Isaac Newton reinvents and then constructs the first optical reflecting telescope that is put to practical use.

Laws of Motion etc. 1687 Isaac Newton publishes his analysis of sound propagation. Isaac Newton publishes his laws of motion and gravitation. Newton declared that time is absolute... 'It flows equably without relation to anything external'. This view was held until Einstein's relativity in 1905.