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My name is Isaac Newton. I am a natural mathematician and philosopher. I am also called the greatest English scientist and the father of modern empirical science. I was born on Christmas day which is 25 December, 1642 in the manor house at Woolsthrope.
In 1654 I was sent to King’s school which was run by Henry Stokes. I studied at King’s school from the age of about twelve until seventeen. At the age of eighteen I achieved an admirable final grade.
In June 1661, I was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. During those times, the teachings were based on Greek philosophers. However, I preferred to read more enhanced ideas of modern philosophers such as Descartes and astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler. In 1665, I got my bachelor’s degree from Cambridge. Unfortunately, I got this bachelor’s degree without honors or distinction.
In 1666, I discovered gravity. It just happened out of no where, I was seating under a tree. Suddenly an apple fell on my head. For most people this would be the end of the story. Nevertheless, for me it wasn’t the end of the story. I started pondering and thinking how does the apple fall down. Does everything fall? Can anything stop the things from falling? I spent many years trying to answer these questions. Later, I discovered the force of gravity. Anything that falls down from top to bottom is the cause of gravity. Furthermore, the law of gravity does not only define how things fall on earth, but it also defines how planets move around the sun and how the moons move around the planets.
In 1687, I published a book called philosophiae naturalis principia mathamatica. In this book I described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.
In mechanics I talked about the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. In optics, I invented the reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the examination that a prism decomposes white light into a visible spectrum. In mathematics, I share my acknowledgment with Gottfried Leibniz for the enhancement of Calculus. Also, I established the basic binomial theorem. I also discovered a method of approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series now commonly known as the Newton’s Method.
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