Written by: Yalam Dev Pradhan - 2027023, Grade V
Posted on: 01 October, 2020
Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution. He was born on 25th Decenber1642.
Isaac Newton was unhappy as a child because Newton's mother wanted him to be a farmer. However, at age 15 or 16, he was ordered to quit school by his mother and return to Woolsthorpe Manor to become a farmer. The teen was uninterested in the job and fared poorly at it.
Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn't go down quite like that.
Isaac Newton invented and discovered Newtonian Telescope, Reflecting telescope, and Newton’s method. Newton helped create a new, specialized form of mathematics. Originally known as "fluxions," and now calculus, it charted the constantly changing and variable state of nature in a way that existing algebra and geometry could not. Newton died in his sleep in London on 20 March 1727.
