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2. In the beginning, Isaac was... born on Christmas Day, 1642 small enough to fit into a quart pot a premature infant and was not expected to live

3. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 His father died 3 months before he was born. His mother remarried a wealthy clergyman and left Isaac with his grandmother for 8 years... until the clergyman died, and his mother came back to the manor, bringing 3 new brothers and sisters to live with Isaac and his grandmother.

4. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Do I LOOK like a farmer? Isaac was expected to follow the family tradition of farming.

5. Newton’s Acres Isaac was also udderly useless at cattle herding.

6. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Instead, Isaac... paid his way for 3 years by waiting tables and cleaning rooms for rich kids and faculty persuaded his mother to let him go to Cambridge University was awarded a scholarship for the next four years.

7. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 However, the reached England, and Cambridge University closed.

8. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Isaac left Cambridge and home-schooled himself for two years. He developed the theory of gravity, the theory of light, and calculus.... at home.

9. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 During these two years, Isaac Newton made his greatest discovery.

11. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Isaac determined that gravity exists throughout the universe.

12. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 During this time, Isaac also... investigated the nature of light discovered that a prism splits white light into a range of colors named this color range the

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14. While waiting for the plague to end, Isaac continued studying light, and concluded that telescopes using lenses caused distortion constructed a reflecting telescope that gathered light with mirrors instead of lenses

15. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Isaac’s first major public scientific achievement was the invention, design, and construction of the reflecting telescope.

16. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 One of Isaac’s really good friends was Edmund Halley. was known for discovering a comet convinced Isaac that he needed to publish his works and discoveries so... Edmund, who went to the same hairdresser as Isaac,

17. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 wrote how his principle of gravity explained the motions of objects in space, as well as the falling bodies on earth explained his three laws of motion, the motions of the planets and their satellites, the motions of comets, and the occurrence of tides In 1687, Newton published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

18. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Newton’s book changed man’s view of the universe.

19. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Isaac became a very recognizable public figure. The result was that he was appointed People were shaving the edges of coins to get the silver for themselves.

20. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Minting Machine “new Invention of Rounding the money & marking the edges of them with letters or grainings.” Isaac was required to take an oath, swearing that he would not reveal the

21. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Isaac lived in the Warden’s house inside the Tower of London. He prosecuted counterfeiters vigorously. He was promoted to Master of the Mint and became very wealthy.

22. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 In 1705, Isaac Newton became Isaac was the first scientist to be knighted for his work. Queen Anne When speaking about his accomplishments, Sir Isaac stated, “If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” What do you think he meant by that?

23. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727. Isaac was 85 years old. He had suffered several nervous breakdowns, possibly because of massive amounts of mercury later discovered in his body.

24. © 2006 Plano ISD, Plano, TX/Klein ISD 2007 Sir Isaac Newton was buried with much ceremony in Westminster Abbey, along with the Kings and Queens of England.

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