In January 1684, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, and Edmond Halley discuss the movement of the planets. In 1667 he resumed his studies at Cambridge University.
However, he was silent for a long time about his discoveries in fear of criticism and theft of his ideas. Retired with his family between 16, he underwent a very intense period of discoveries, among which the law of the inverse of the square of the distance in gravitation, his development of the bases of classical mechanics, the formalization of the fluxion method stand out and the generalization of the binomial theorem, also highlighting the physical nature of colors. Shortly afterward, she returned to the family farm due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. He then approached the binomial theorem, based on the work of John Wallis, and developed his method called calculation of fluxions. First contributionsįrom the end of 1664, he worked intensively on different mathematical problems. In 1668 he obtained the title of Master of Arts and became Senior Fellow of Trinity College (Cambridge).
In 1665 he obtained the Bachelor of Arts in 1666 he was elected Junior Fellow. Eventually, his teacher convinced his mother to let him continue his studies at Trinity College in Cambridge where he moved in 1661.Īt that time the College’s teachings were based on Aristotle, but Newton preferred more modern philosophers such as Descartes, Galileo, Niccolò Copernico, and Keplero. During that time he had taken strange habits: he built sundials, water hourglasses and working models of mills.Īt the end of 1658, his mother forced him to abandon his studies and called him home to take care of the fields but turned out to be a bad farmer. It was probably not an important thing, but it was practically the only romantic relationship Newton had in his life. It seems to have had a romantic relationship with Catherine Storer, the landlord’s stepdaughter. He was staying with the Clarke family, in close friendship with the Newtons. In 1652, when Isaac was ten years old, his stepfather died leaving him a not indifferent legacy with which he could pay for education at King’s School, in Grantham. In those years he was very unhappy: he hated his stepfather and it seems that once he came to threaten to set his house on fire. Three years later, her mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried a wealthy cleric named Barnabas Smith, sixty years old, leaving little Isaac in the care of his maternal grandparents. His father, also named Isaac and a small landowner, died three months before his birth he, on his will, drew a bird as his hallmark instead of the signature, despite being able to write. Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, on 25 December 1642 Julian, or 4 January 1643, in a family of breeders. Mathematician and physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) said that “Newton was the greatest genius ever, and also the most fortunate, given that only one system can be found to rule the world.” The Early Life of Isaac Newton He is often rated the greatest scientist of all time, and his work the culmination of the scientific revolution. Newton was the first to demonstrate that the natural laws that govern the motion on Earth and those that govern the motion of celestial bodies are the same. He was also a pioneer of fluid mechanics, establishing a law on viscosity. his argument about the possibility that light was made up of particles his development of a thermal convection law, which describes the cooling rate of objects exposed to air his studies on the speed of sound in air and his proposal for a theory on the origin of stars. Among his scientific findings is the discovery that the color spectrum seen when white light passes through a prism is inherent in that light, rather than coming from the prism (as had been postulated by Roger Bacon in the 13th century). He also contributed to other areas of mathematics, developing the binomial theorem and the Newton-Cotes formulas. Newton shares with Gottfried Leibniz the credit for the development of integral and differential calculus, which he used to formulate his laws of physics and astronomy. His other scientific discoveries include works on the nature of light and optics (which are mainly presented in his work Opticks), and in mathematics, the development of infinitesimal calculus. He is the author of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, better known as the Principia, where he describes the law of universal gravitation and established the foundations of classical mechanics through the laws that bear his name. Isaac Newton (Born on December 25, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire and died on March 20, 1727), was a physicist, theologian, inventor, alchemist, and English mathematician.