Window.FB.Event.subscribe('xfbml.render', function() (document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')) He had a long-term rivalry with Robert Hooke. He used his telescope to study optics and help prove his theory of light and color.Īlthough there are claims that Newton was engaged, he was never actually married. As a professor at Cambridge, Newton delivered annual lectures and chose optics as his preferred topic. Newton’s first major scientific achievement was constructing a reflecting telescope in 1668. Along with Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Newton is credited with developing theories of calculus. His landmark book on physics, “Principia,” contains information on nearly all the essential concepts of physics, which helped him to outline the theory of gravity and laws of motion. He came up with the theory of the light spectrum, and that light was composed of particles. Newton made discoveries in motion, optics, mathematics, and physics. The notes outlined the new concept of nature that Newton discovered, which provided the foundation for the Scientific Revolution. It was during this period that Newton kept a set of notes, titled “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae” (“Certain Philosophical Questions”). In 1661, Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge in a work-study program.Īlthough Newton was initially taught the standard curriculum, he was more interested in advanced science. Newton was miserable, as he found farming tasking, and monotonous. When he was 12, his mother withdrew him from school. Newton enrolled at the King’s School in Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire, where showed an early interest in science. He was very defensive of his published work. This experience left an indelible mark on Newton, later manifesting itself as an acute sense of insecurity and anxiety. She went to live with him and took Newton to live with his grandmother. Isaac Newton was born in England in 1642. He believed in divine creation and wrote strong articles opposing atheism and defending the Bible. Many scholars even consider him the greatest scientist who ever lived, but they often refuse to talk about his faith. When Newton was three, his mother remarried a successful minister, Barnabas Smith. Isaac Newton is one of the most famous scientists of all time. Newton, however, defied the odds and survived. He was so frail that they thought he would not survive. Newton was the only child of a local farmer, also named Isaac, who died three months before his son was born. “Ike,” they would say, “if you chucked the alchemy and prophecy thing you could produce all the scientific achievements that will earn you glory and still leave most of the day for wine, women, and song.”ĭidn’t happen, but let’s have some respect.Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Lincolnshire, England. Too bad Newton didn’t have the benefit of modern management consultants.
Two sciences, actually, physics and to a large extent mathematics. The other ten percent, the stuff he did for laughs, I suppose we might say, took six thousand years of disjointed fumbling and made it into a science. Ninety percent of what he obsessed about -alchemy, biblical prophecy, and religious disputations were among his lifelong passions -was rubbish. Newton, in contrast, was walking proof that one path to immortality, assuming you have the requisite endowment of brains, is to obsess. Richard Feynman, one of the legendary minds of our time, was quite the bon vivant, and …well, I dare not even speak of myself. Furthermore, he was so straitlaced it seems unlikely he availed himself of, how shall I say, commercial outlets.
Still, having thus fenced out the boundaries of the knowable, we can say that, with the possible exception of one teenage friendship (there is no sign that it became physical), Isaac Newton apparently formed no romantic attachments during his 84 years of life. As one of my high school classmates unwisely asked at the lunch table one day, “What, technically, is the definition of a virgin?”
(Sorry.) It’s not like they had the guy under constant surveillance. How the math gene perpetuates itself is one of the mysteries of our age.Īdmittedly this is an area where it is unwise to make blanket statements. You met many electrical engineers? But mathematicians are probably the worst that way. What’s tragic is that he may have died a virgin.
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