Sir Isaac Newton Research Paper

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Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father, also Isaac Newton, was a farmer who died Isaac Junior was even born. Although they were very financially well off, his father could not read nor write. His mother remarried, after his father died, when Isaac Junior was three. Newton did not like his mother’s new husband and refused to live with them. He then went to live with his grandmother. When he was twelve he went to school and learned the basics but did not learn math or science. Then when he turned seventeen his mother pulled him out of school so he could become a farmer. He soon learned he did not like farming at all and his mother allowed him to return to school.
Isaac Newton was a well known mathematician and physicist. Also was given the titles of the greatest minds of the 17th century. He made several discoveries in motion …show more content…

When he returned back to Cambridge after the Plague was over, he contributed to Geometry, Calculus, and Algebra. He was the first person to ever really develop calculus. Even more specifically, he discovered the binomial theorem, which is new developing new and harder methods. His creative years lasted from 1664 to about 1696.
Unlike his mathematical works, his studies in optics quickly became public. After his election to the Royal Society, he published his first ever paper the “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society”. This paper helped with his undergraduate researchers as well as his lectures.
In 1665 to about 1666, performed many experiments on the composition of light. His main discovery was visible light was heterogenous, which means white light is composed of colors that can be considered primary. After all these experiments he discovers that prisms separate rather than modify white light. Newton also demonstrated that the colors of the spectrum correspond to an observed ‘degree of

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