Newton was born on Christmas day in Woolsthorpe manor England (or January fourth according to another popular calendar that England was using. Britain was just a really indecisive country) way back in 1642. He was the son of a skillful farmer, who also happened to be named Isaac Newton. Sadly, his father died before Newton was born. That’s pretty tragic, because he never got to witness all the exceptional things his child achieved. If that wasn’t depressing enough poor Isaac was born premature. This means he was born too early and hasn’t yet fully developed. Now back then, the infant mortality rate was of megalithic size when contrasted to know, so even healthy babies had a very big chance of dying. Its miraculous Newton survived. Now, Newton’s mum remarried when he was three, and then Newton went of to live with his maternal grandmother.
Young Newton was a pretty precocious fellow, very intrigued by mathematics and science. He’s normally noted as being one of the first to employ the scientific method. However, his mother wished for him to fill his birthright as farmer. Newton hated farming, so this wouldn’t have been good. Supposedly, one of Newton’s teachers convinced her to let him continue his education. She agreed to let him go to college, so Newton set off to Cambridge! Thank goodness, can you all imagine what the world would be like if Newton became a farmer!
Isaac Newton
is a wild frat boy in college now! Okay, well, he probably wasn’t attending
many frat parties, but I’m sure he was at least glad that he didn’t have to be
a lousy farmer. Strangely, Newton was at first just a satisfactory student, but
nonetheless he snagged his bachelor’s degree. Just in time too, because
Cambridge had to close because of the, wait for it, Black Plague! Jeez the doctors sure were spooky.
Newton had to
return home to Woolsthorpe for an entire year while the Bubonic Plague was on
the rampage. That’s not all bad news because this was definitely Newton’s
intellectual highpoint, his year in Woolsthorpe is even dubbed “Newton’s miracle
year” (psst; kind of like how 1989 was The Cure’s highpoint because of how successful
their LP Disintegration was). It’s called his miracle year because he made many
pretty miraculous discoveries. Jeez, I don’t do stuff like that when I’m on
leave from school, Newton’s making me look bad!
Allegedly, Newton was struck on the head by an apple and that got him thinking
and he came up with the concept of gravity; Whoa. He also came up with three laws of motion.
First, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Next he discovered that
acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass; Force= mass times
acceleration, and Finally, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
His Woolsthorpe endeavors also included
him making contributions to the optics field. Newton revolutionized things yet again
by coming up with the notion that light isn’t actually white. He discovered
this by using a prism that diffracts light. The prism, called a dispersive
prism, is the same kind found on Pink Floyd’s
Dark Side of the Moon album (Wow, that rock n’roll reference was actually easy
to make this time).
He invented a
reflecting telescope which made images viewed through it clearer opposed to
preceding models. Newton also worked with money as well and helped prevent counterfeiters.
Newton also published a massive tome
containing many of his observations referred to as “the Principia” Oh, yeah, he
also created calculus. Seriously, that’s all super impressive and makes me feel
so insignificant; I just want to cry in the corner while I listen to The Smiths
and The Cure; I already do that though.
Newton received
many accolades for all of his accomplishments; thank goodness! Isaac Newton was
knighted by Queen Ann for his contributions; an honor that was seldom given to
scientists. Newton became president of the Royal Society and was re-elected
every year until his death in 1727 at the ripe old age of 84. Then he was
buried in Westminster Abbey; a tremendous honor. 
Isaac Newton had a rough start,
but he went on to make waves in the field of science and math. I maintain that
he’s a bit more important than Elvis Presley; wow, that was really hard to
admit. I’ll leave all of you with some interesting factoids that I forget to
fit in-between all the forced rock references.
FACTS:
Newton never
married
“Newton’s”
are units of measurement used to calculate force; named after Isaac newton.
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