Sir Isaac Newton's Social Influence And History

Isaac Newton’s Social Influence and History

Sir Isaac Newton was an English natural philosopher, physician, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and inventor. (Sir) Newton has created many works that have contributed to the progression of science and mathematics including Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newtonian Mechanics, and Opticks. Newton was the first to explain the formation of rainbows in a rain shower and the formation of light, he explained precisely gravity and motion, created the binomial theorem, and arguably created calculus. (Sir) Despite his early obstacles, Sir Isaac Newton has laid the groundwork for modern science, mathematics, physics religious philosophy.

Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (at Woolsthorpe Manor), a hamlet in the county of

Lincolnshire, England. Isaac Newton was born prematurely and no one expected him to live, his mother says he could fit inside a quart mug. (Sir) Newton’s father, Isaac, died three months before his birth. When he was two, his mother left to live with her new husband and left Isaac with his grandmother. Newton was eventually enrolled in local early education schools. (Sir)
After attending village pre-education schools, Newton attended the King's School in Grantham or Grantham Grammar School from the age of 12. His signature remains in a windowsill in the school. (Sir) Sometime in October, Newton was removed from his school in Grantham was brought back to Woolsthorpe, his mother tried to make a farmer out of him. Newton’s parents were later persuaded to let Isaac finish his education at the school. Isaac graduated at 18 years old and received a laudable final evaluation from his teacher. (Sir)
In June of 1661, Newton was enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. The college was based on the teachings of Aristotle but Newton preferred the teachings of Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler. (Sir) While studying at Cambridge, Newton began writing a series of notes called “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae”, Newton had discovered the basic laws of nature which provided the framework for the scientific revolution era. These teachings began Newton’s age of research in science and mathematics. Own his own, without guidance, Newton began his work in mathematics, Isaac kept the progress of his studies to his notebook. (Sir Isaac) Newton would study for many years before becoming a professor.
After becoming a successor professor, Newton began his work in Optics.

His lectures developed an essay called “Of Colours” which was later revised into Book One of his Opticks. In his work in Opticks, Newton discovered that individual light rays excite sensations of colors in the retina when they strike the eye. He also discovered that rays refract at distinct angles creating the prismatic spectrum, “a beam of heterogeneous rays, i.e., alike incident on one face of a prism, separated or analyzed by the refraction into its component parts—and that phenomena such as the rainbow are produced by refractive analysis.” (Sir Isaac)

Later, In August of 1684, Newton was visited by British Astronomer Edmond Halley who had a problem with orbital dynamics. Newton solved this problem and Edmond sent the demonstration. Later, he received a tract called “On Motion”. (Sir Isaac) Newton expanded this work and created the “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, this piece became his masterpiece and became a fundamental work for all of modern science. These mechanics have been the paradigm of natural science ever since, and these included Newton’s three laws of motion. (Sir

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In 1693, Newton suffered from mental breakdown, little is known about this period in his life. Two years later, he returned to public office and took over wardenship of a coin mint and was eventually promoted to master of the mint in 1699. Newton was also reelected to Parliament where he would stay for the rest of his life. (Hibbin)
Newton’s works in his later years were mostly religious apart from some mathematics and a dispute with German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who really invented calculus. (Hibbin) Isaac Newton spent hours trying to understand messages hidden in the Book of Revelation, he was in search for the truth about God’s written and created works. (Hibbin)
In all Newton’s research, he proved to be a very influential thinker. History experts say that Newton contributed and was one of the most influential minds in all of human history. Though they were devised for physical science they were applied to social sciences and influenced some of the greatest minds in enlightenment. (Libii)
Experts in the history of science believe that Newton contributed more to the development of science than any other individual in history. His work is also thought to have incited the Age of Reason. Newton made an incredible contribution to modern western science and mathematics. Newton is seen as one of the most influential scientific figures following in the footsteps of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes and many other greats. (Libii) Newton has truly changed the scientific worldview of the western world and mankind itself.