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Subject: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Category: Science
Asked by: dd2105-ga
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Posted: 04 May 2004 12:37 PDT
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Question ID: 341049
WHERE DID THE SCIENTIST GROW UP? WAS IT ON A FARM OR IN A BIG CITY?
WHAT SCHOOL DID THE SCIENTIST GO TO, WHAT COLLEGE, DID  HE WRITE ANY
APTENTS, WHAT WERE THE PATENTS, WHAT DID THE SCIENTISTS INVENT FOOR
SOCIETY, WHAT IS THE SCIENTIST FAMOUS QUOTES?
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Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: pinkfreud-ga on 04 May 2004 13:04 PDT
 
The links on this page should be very helpful:

http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/13-NDFE/newton/05-NEWTON-PAGE.html
Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: bowler-ga on 04 May 2004 13:30 PDT
 
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Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: tobytyler-ga on 08 May 2004 07:56 PDT
 
Isaac Newton is a very famous scientist.

He was born in 1642 in England.  
His father died before he was born, 
while he was still in his mother's womb.  

He lived on the farm with his mother.

When he was two years old, his mother married again to an older man.  
I don't think his step-father liked having Isaac about. 
Isaac went to live with his grand-parents.  
I think this was in a nearby town.

Or maybe he just went there so that he could get to school easier.

I don't think he was very happy.
One time he told his step-father 
that he was going to burn the farmhouse down.

When he was only a boy he made a model of a windmill
just like one being built nearby.

Because he was smart, he went to university.

It was a very famous university called Cambridge.
He studied mathematics and theology.

He got a job at the university.
In those days, you were supposed to become a priest
before you could become a lecturer at Cambridge.
But because he was so smart they changed the rules for Newton
and he didn't become a priest.

He didn't take out any patents.  I don't think anyone had patents then.

He studied the planets and worked out equations 
for how they moved around the sun.

People had ideas that only magnets could attract each other.
But Newton thought that all objects could attract each other.
This is the reason we stick onto the earth.
He called it gravity.

He thought that gravity made the planets travel around the sun.
The sun is millions of miles away but it is so huge 
that it can attract the earth and keep it in orbit.

He built new and better telescopes to study the night sky.

I like Isaac Newton because he studied both mathematics and science.

Here is web page about him:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html
Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: ahuddy-ga on 20 May 2004 10:40 PDT
 
A great deal of information on Sir Isaac Newton can be found at
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html

Newton invented differential calculus and the three laws on motion
1."Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that
state of motion unless an external force is applied to it."
2."The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a,
and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors
(as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in
this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the
direction of the acceleration vector."
3."For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html

Newton is the face of the Scientific Revolution, and is the primary
role model for those during the Enlightenment.

As a little side fact, Newton never had a romantic relationship and is
said to have died a virgin.

Hope that helps
Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: camm-ga on 24 May 2004 18:16 PDT
 
My favorite quote from Sir Issac Newton is "If I have been able to see
farther than others,it was because I stood on the shoulders of
giants."
Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: p1212-ga on 24 May 2004 19:16 PDT
 
Another thing to note: Newton was a very devout believer in God, and
wrote over 1 million words on the book of Daniel.  Based on his
interpretations of Daniel, he foresaw the re-establishment of Israel
300 years before it happened:

http://www.isaacnewton.ca/daniel_apocalypse/pt1ch10.html
Subject: Re: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
From: ogm101-ga on 07 Sep 2004 07:51 PDT
 
I believe that the qoute "if i have seen further ... "

Was actually meant as a scathing joke. At the time Newton and Hooke,
who we all know from Hooke's Law of elasticity, were having an
arguement about propriety of intellectual property, ie having a barny
about who said what first.

Hooke claimed that Newton was being praised for work that Hooke
claimed he had done first, and therefore accused him of theft.

Newtons reply was the qoute in question, the insult was that Hooke has
always been known as being diminuitive in stature, the line being that
if Newton was being praised it was because of his work with others
rather than the squat Hooke.

Olly

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