Sir Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642 and died on 20 March 1727. Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician who extensively considered as one of the greatest persuasive scientists of all period and as a important symbol in the scientific rebellion. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”), first published in 1687, positioned the foundations for furthermost of classical mechanics. Newton also prepared seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus.
Newton’s Principia expressed the laws of motion and universal gravitation that subjugated scientists’ opinion of the physical universe for the next three centuries. It also established that the motion of objects on the Earth and that of heavenly bodies could be designated by the same principles. By descending Kepler’s laws of planetary motion from his mathematical explanation of gravity, Newton impassive the last doubts about the rationality of the heliocentric model of the cosmos.
Newton constructed the first practical reflecting telescope and established a theory of color based on the reflection that a prism decomposes white light into the lots of colors of the visible spectrum. He also articulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In addition to his exertion on the calculus, as a mathematician Newton subsidized to the study of power series, comprehensive the binomial theorem to non-integer exponents, and established Newton’s method for approximating the roots of a function.
Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He was a heartfelt but unorthodox Christian and, bizarrely for a member of the Cambridge faculty, he rejected to take holy orders in the Church of England, perhaps for the reason that he in private rejected the doctrine of trinitarianism. In addition to his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton also devoted much of his time to the education of alchemy and biblical chronology, but maximum of his work in those areas keep on unpublished waiting long after his death. In his later life, Newton became president of the Royal Society. He also served the British government as Warden and Master of the Royal Mint.
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