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Sir Isaac Newton Paige Ramsett
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Who he was An English physicist and mathematician who is widely known as one of the most influential scientists of all time as well as a key figure in the scientific revolution. Scientific revolution-was the coming of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, medicine, and chemistry transformed many views of society and nature.
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Young Isaac Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642, at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire He was educated at The King's School, Grantham. Later, was removed from school, his mother attempted to make a farmer of him. He hated farming. The master at the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school. June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge He also ended up working at Cambridge
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Achievements He wrote a book called Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, that laid the foundations for most of classical mechanics He also made contributions to optics and helped invent infinitesimal calculus with Gottfried Leibniz Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that changed scientists' view of the physical universe Newton built the first reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours of the visible spectrum
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Achievements (continued)
He studied the speed of sound as well as formulated an empirical law of cooling He also dedicated much of his time to the study of alchemy and biblical chronology Newton generalized the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents, contributed to the study of power series, and developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function He basically laid the ground work for mathematics
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Optics Glasses Telescope
Changed the way we look at space (literally, Hubble) By just observing colors he figured it out He wrote several books about optics, light refraction, and how it works But some people still criticized his ideas, including other scientists
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The Crucial Experiment
in a dark room Newton allowed a narrow beam of sunlight to pass from a small hole in a window shutter through a prism breaking the white light into an oblong spectrum on a board. Then, through a small aperture in the board, he selected a given color to pass through yet another aperture to a second prism, through which it was refracted onto a second board. 'crucial experiment' demonstrated that a selected color leaving the first prism could not be separated further by the second prism. The selected beam remained the same color, and its angle of refraction was constant throughout. So in the end the white light is a mixture of differently refrangible rays and that colors of the spectrum cannot be individually modified
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Finally Newton died in his sleep in London on 20 March 1727 and was buried in Westminster Abbey He is now known as an extremely important person whom without we wouldn’t have the law of gravity, laws of motion or telescopes
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