Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac

Sir Isaac

NewtonWilliam Cesar Cruz TelloJeanet Conde BandaCristhian Quillahuaman Quin

His Formative YearsBorn on December 25, 1642 (January 4, 1643) in Wools Thorpe, Lincolnshire, EnglandRaised by his grandparentsPulled out of school at 14 to run the family farmWasnt good at farming, so they sent him back to school

The Newton residence, circa 1689

SchoolingEntered Trinity College at Cambridge University at age 18 and began studying to become a ministerGraduated at age 23Returned to the farm because of the Black DeathHe got bored and ended up working on the binomial theorem, light, telescopes, calculus, and theology.

Newton in about 1702OpticsDiscovered that light is made up of a spectrum of colorsMade the first telescope that used a curved mirror instead of lensesBelieved that light was made up of corpuscles rather than waves (Hooke and Huygens disagreed)Didnt publish any of this until the after the death of Hooke in 1703

Newton in the Lab

5A replica of Isaac Newton's telescope of 1672.This was a new design of telescope - the Newtonian reflector. At 6 inches in diameter, it was also one of the largest telescope of its day. Newton's work on optics and splitting white light, led him to believe that all refracting telescopes would suffer from chromatic aberration. His new design of reflecting telescope minimised this problem. However, due to problems with accurately grinding the mirror, Newton's telescope actually caused more image distortions than other contemporary telescope and more than a century passed before reflecting telescope became popular.Newton presented the original telescope to the Royal Society in 1672 and was admitted as a fellow of the society in the same year.This replica is in the the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge.Apples and StuffFormulated Newtons Laws Proved that the force of gravity is inversely proportional to distance squaredAfter conquering gravity, motion and optics, decided to work on changing lead into gold