Isaac Newton may have been born prematurely, but he had a very large impact on our world. He was a very accomplished natural philosopher (physicist), scientist, and an English mathematician with discoveries in optics, motion, and mathematics. Every element of Isaac’s life came from hard work and self initiative. Therefore, he never needed help in finances or education he earned everything.
On Christmas Day in 1642, Hannah Newton gave birth to her son Isaac Newton. Isaac’s family never expected him to make it, with it being winter they placed him behind the wood stove wrapped tightly in a small box for warmth. However, little Isaac fought and grew like a normal boy would. Around age twelve Newton attended King Edward’s Grammar School in Grantham and boarded with the apothecary William Clark (Krull 21). Clark had the first impact on Isaac’s science life by teaching him about herbs and by letting him experiment with them. Clark’s brother was a Cambridge scholar, and let Isaac run free on his bookshelves which allowed him to learn about Galileo and other giants of science that he would come to know better (Krull 22). Which likewise aloud Newton to follow in similar footsteps of Clark’s brother, Because later Newton pursued the same college. In 1661, Newton left the countryside a hundred miles away to Cambridge University (Krull 30). Cambridge is actually a collection of colleges and Newton attended The College of Holy Trinity. Newton’s mother was a wealthy widow who opposed his education and refused to pay for his education (Krull 31). Isaac entered Trinity as a subsizar. A subsizar is a student who serves wealthier students to pay for their stay at school. Therefore, Newton was forced to do tasks like serving food and drink to classmates only to get the leftovers when they were done. Newton may not have been very high on the social ladder, but he sure was the smartest guy around. His primary concern was acquiring money, so figured out if he loaned people money, he could charge interest and make a profit from it. He used that money to buy the essentials like books, paper, ink, two …show more content…
Newton was not only a natural philosopher, he was a pious Christian and active theologian (Patiniotis 6). Consequently, while studying gravity credited self with potential atheism, because he believed that there was a more naturalistic explanation for the Universe rather than a supernatural or Godly belief (Patiniotis 6). The authority of Newtonian philosophy was established through the publication of two major works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Principia and Opticks (Patiniotis 1). “ The publication of The Principia clearly marked the establishment of a new spirit in European natural philosophy.” (Patiniotis 1) “The Opticks is a brilliant display of the art of experimentation, and it was often cited as a model of how to approach a difficult problem by experiment and how to conduct precise quantitative experiments.” (Patiniotis 2) The Opticks was a far more widely read work but both the Principia and Opticks have helped us immensely in mathematics and physics. He seemed to have literally killed himself with study, he was diagnosed with insomnia and began experiencing amnesia, and even on his good days he seemed joyless (Krull 92). Not long after he was diagnosed with insomnia at the age of eighty-five from gout, lung inflammation, and kidney stones he passed away on
On Christmas Day in 1642, Hannah Newton gave birth to her son Isaac Newton. Isaac’s family never expected him to make it, with it being winter they placed him behind the wood stove wrapped tightly in a small box for warmth. However, little Isaac fought and grew like a normal boy would. Around age twelve Newton attended King Edward’s Grammar School in Grantham and boarded with the apothecary William Clark (Krull 21). Clark had the first impact on Isaac’s science life by teaching him about herbs and by letting him experiment with them. Clark’s brother was a Cambridge scholar, and let Isaac run free on his bookshelves which allowed him to learn about Galileo and other giants of science that he would come to know better (Krull 22). Which likewise aloud Newton to follow in similar footsteps of Clark’s brother, Because later Newton pursued the same college. In 1661, Newton left the countryside a hundred miles away to Cambridge University (Krull 30). Cambridge is actually a collection of colleges and Newton attended The College of Holy Trinity. Newton’s mother was a wealthy widow who opposed his education and refused to pay for his education (Krull 31). Isaac entered Trinity as a subsizar. A subsizar is a student who serves wealthier students to pay for their stay at school. Therefore, Newton was forced to do tasks like serving food and drink to classmates only to get the leftovers when they were done. Newton may not have been very high on the social ladder, but he sure was the smartest guy around. His primary concern was acquiring money, so figured out if he loaned people money, he could charge interest and make a profit from it. He used that money to buy the essentials like books, paper, ink, two …show more content…
Newton was not only a natural philosopher, he was a pious Christian and active theologian (Patiniotis 6). Consequently, while studying gravity credited self with potential atheism, because he believed that there was a more naturalistic explanation for the Universe rather than a supernatural or Godly belief (Patiniotis 6). The authority of Newtonian philosophy was established through the publication of two major works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Principia and Opticks (Patiniotis 1). “ The publication of The Principia clearly marked the establishment of a new spirit in European natural philosophy.” (Patiniotis 1) “The Opticks is a brilliant display of the art of experimentation, and it was often cited as a model of how to approach a difficult problem by experiment and how to conduct precise quantitative experiments.” (Patiniotis 2) The Opticks was a far more widely read work but both the Principia and Opticks have helped us immensely in mathematics and physics. He seemed to have literally killed himself with study, he was diagnosed with insomnia and began experiencing amnesia, and even on his good days he seemed joyless (Krull 92). Not long after he was diagnosed with insomnia at the age of eighty-five from gout, lung inflammation, and kidney stones he passed away on