Max Arthur Team 6 Nov, 26, 2012
My Biography on Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on Christmas day, 1642. His dad just died a few months before he was born. He was named after his dad.
In 1645 his mom marred a clergyman and she moved away to live with him. Isaac had to move in with his grandma. He didn’t like his stepdad and he was mad at his mom for marrying him.
When the clergyman husband died in 1656, his mom moved back to Woolsthorpe and Isaac moved in with her again.
Isaac Newton went to Grantham Grammar School from age 12 to 17.
Then Isaac had to drop out of school and help his mom with the family farm. He hated working on a farm and in 1660 he went back to school again.
In 1661 he went to Trinity College Cambridge. He got his a Bachelors degree 1665. A year later, Isaac had leave college at Cambridge because the plague was making everyone sick.
He went back home to Woolsthorpe for 2 years. During that time at home, he came up with most of his theories on gravity, optics and calculus.
Then in 1667, he went back to college and in 1672 he wrote his paper about light and colors.
In 1669 Isaac became professor of math at Cambridge.
In 1668, he invented a really cool reflecting telescope.
In 1687 Isaac Newton published his paper called, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. It explained his theories on gravity and the
Three Laws of Motion.
- An object will continue to move or sit still until an force is exerted on it.
- The more mass an object has, the more force required to move it.
- For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.
In 1704 Isaac Newton published another really good paper about light.
In 1705 Isaac was knighted by Queen Anne.
He died March 20, 1727. He was 84 years old.
Isaac Newton was a really smart man. He came up with some really cool ideas how things work. He showed the people how things really work instead of how the churches told the people the world worked.
He didn’t believe in any one kind of religion.
I think he was a big part of the age of enlightenment.
He blazed the trail for modern science.
The End !!!!!!!!!
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton