Isaac Newton - Education Companion

Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the year Galileo died. Almost all his creative years were spent at the University of Cambridge, England, first as a student, later as a greatly honoured professor. He never married, and his personality continues to intrigue scholars to this day: secretive, at times cryptic, embroiled in personal quarrels with some scholars yet generous to others, bestowing his attention not just on and mathematics, but also on religion and alchemy.

The one thing about which everyone agrees is his brilliant talent. Three problems intrigued scientists in Newton’s time: the laws of motionMotion is the act of changing location from one place to ano..., the laws of planetary orbits, and the mathematics of continuously varying quantities–a field nowadays known as [differential and integral] calculus. It may be fairly stated that Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born in 1642, the year Galileo died. Almos... was the first to solve all three. No wonder that the poet Alexander Pope, who lived in Newton’s time, wrote:

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night. God said: “Let Newton be!” and all was light.

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