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Essay / Life of Isaac Newton - 1084
Isaac Newton built the foundations of physics. He was an English physician, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. He is superior in many ways. He invented a reflecting microscope and therefore developed a theory of color, proven by the prism. He published “Philosophiea Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (Lantin for “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” usually called the Principia)” in 1687. It became a masterpiece as soon as it was published. This great book includes a theory of gravity and Newton's three laws. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. Additionally, he proved helicocentrism through his theory of gravitation and Kepler's law of planetary motion. Life Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in country Lincolnshire. There was a Puritan revolution when he was born. He was born three months after the death of his father, a successful farmer also named Isaac Newton. He was born prematurely, so he was a very small child. When he was three years old, his mother Hannah Ayscough remarried and lived with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabus Smith. Newton cared for his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. When he was ten, his mother, who had lost her new husband, returned to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth with three boys. Newton hated his stepfather and he abhorred his mother who had remarried. He had written in a list of sins committed: "Threatening Father and Mother Smith to burn them and the house that covers them." He was once engaged to a Miss Storey and never married. He was very absorbed in his studies and work. His mother Hannah Ayscough wanted Newton to be a farmer and she did not care about education. She was also hesitant to spend money on her education. From the age of around twelve to seventeen, Newton was educated at King's School, Grantham. He was taken out of school in October 1659. His mother forced him to become a farmer. He hated farming. Henry Stokes, a master at the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he could complete his education. He was sent to school and became the highest ranked student. In June 1661 he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. At that time, the university's teaching styles were based on Aristotle, but Newton preferred reading the advanced ideas of modern philosophers, such as Descartes, and he was also interested in reading astronomers such as Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler..