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Isaac Newton, an English mathematician, physicist and chemist was
considered one of the greatest scientists in history, by making many
important contributions to several fields of science. His discoveries
and theories laid the foundation for much of the progress in science
since his time. Newton was one of the inventors of the branch of
mathematics called calculus. He also solved the mysteries of light and
optics, formulated the three laws of motion, and derived from them the
law of universal gravitation.
Calculus
“Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the
methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to
calculate the area swept by curves, and he recognized that the two
procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called
the fluxional method, Newton developed in the autumn of 1666 a kind of
mathematics that is now known as calculus. Calculus was a new and
powerful method that carried modern mathematics above the level of
Greek geometry.
Optics
“Optics was another area of Newton's early interests. In trying to
explain how colours occur, he arrived at the idea that sunlight is a
heterogeneous blend of different rays each of which represents a
different colour and that reflections and refractions cause colours to
appear by separating the blend into its components. Newton
demonstrated his theory of colours by passing a beam of sunlight
through a type of prism, which split the beam into separate colours.
(..)In 1704, however, Newton published Opticks, which explained his
theories in detail.”
Three laws of Motion
“Newton established the modern science of dynamics by formulating his
three laws of motion. Newton applied these laws to Kepler's laws of
orbital motion formulated by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler and
derived the law of universal gravitation. Newton is probably best
known for discovering universal gravitation, which explains that all
bodies in space and on earth are affected by the force called gravity.
He published this theory in his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica in 1687. This book marked a turning point in the history
of science”
Source: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free
University of Berlin
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/rd/ag/isaac/newton/newtlife.html
Sir Isaac Newton and the Unification of Physics & Astronomy
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton.html
Newton's Three Laws of Motion
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html
Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
An excellent slide show – “Effects of Newton's Thought”
http://www.d.umn.edu/~aroos/HTML8/index.html
Biography of Sir Isaac Newton
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Newton.htm
Another Sir Isaac Newton biography
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/358.asp
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