Term Papers on Sir Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire.  When Isaac was three years old his mother left him in the care of his grandmother to get remarried.  After his mother was widowed a second time, she sent Isaac to grammar school in Grantham.  He was later sent to Trinity College, at the University of Cambridge in the summer of 1661.  Newton received his bachelor’s degree in 1665.  After avoiding college because of the plague he returned to Trinity, which elected him to fellowship in 1667 and then received his master’s degree in 1668.  He pursued his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy ignoring the established curriculum.  Isaac investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy, and almost immediately made a few discoveries.
     Newton’s first achievement generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the are swept by curves. He recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations.  Newton made the fluxional method by joining them and created the mathematics that is now known as calculus.  This was a method that carried modern mathematics higher than the level of Greek geometry.
     Another of Newton’s interests was optics.  Newton tried to explain how colors occur and he had made a theory that the sunlight is a heterogeneous blend of different rays.  He also thought that ...

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