There he is. The great Sir Isaac Newton. What has he done to change the world? A whopping great lot, if you ask me.In 1677, Newton returned to his work on mechanics, i.e., gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets, with reference to Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and consulting with Hooke and Flamsteed on the subject. He published his results in De motu corporum in gyrum (1684). This contained the beginnings of the laws of motion that would inform the Principia.
The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (now known as the Principia) was published on 5 July 1687 with encouragement and financial help from Edmond Halley. In this work Newton stated the three universal laws of motion that were not to be improved upon for more than two hundred years. He used the Latin word gravitas (weight) for the effect that would become known as gravity, and defined the law of universal gravitation. In the same work he presented the first analytical determination, based on Boyle's law, of the speed of sound in air.
With the Principia, Newton became internationally recognized. He acquired a circle of admirers, including the Swiss-born mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, with whom he formed an intense relationship that lasted until 1693. The end of this friendship led Newton to a nervous breakdown.
In a manuscript he wrote in 1704 in which he describes his attempts to extract scientific information from the Bible, he estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060. In predicting this he said, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."[34]
I sure hope that doesn't happen!!!
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7 comments:
full credit! well done - i love your intro :-)
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Very good Neina Marie! He looks like a woman with his hair do in the picture, but he was a really brainy man! he is the guy who put the apple on the other guys head and shot it with an arrow right? (I sure wouldnt want to be the guy with the apple on my head if Isaac wasnt a good achery peson!)
I dunno RG, but I do think that an apple fell on his head and he wondered "Why? Why do we not all fall in ye great gods air, why do ye not float like a lumbug? Ye why? Ye why???"
Oh!! thats it, I heard somehting about an apple on a head relating to him, but it must have been that! My mum was reading the trivia in teh newspaper, and told me that he was born on christmas day! Maybe you could add that!
I may. U r smart. Ur Mam is smart. Ye family is smart!
Cool.
cool. the person rosie-gal was talking about is william tell. he is swiss (like me) . cool aye.
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