Sir Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton

• and how the apple fell.

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The early life of Sir Isaac Newton

• Born in 1642 in the small village of Woolsthorpe,
  England
• Father died a few months before he was born and
  he was raised by his grandmother.
• Had a bad start in school and was one of the
  poorest students in his grammar school.
• It is said he was cracked in the head (by a bully
  or apple) and let his genius out.

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Big ideas at Cambridge University.

• Discovered the universal law of gravitation in
  1666.
• Developed Calculus.
• Discovered that white light is composed of every
  color in the spectrum.
• Studied Dynamics (the branch of mechanics that
  deals with the motion of objects).
• Developed ideas on the motions of planets and
  comets.

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The personality of a genius.

• The feeling of being abandoned by his mother at
  age two haunted him throughout his life.
• Was said to be suspicious and have a quarrelsome
  temper.
• Extremely absent-minded, especially when trying
  to figure out a mathematical concept.
• Sometimes could not remember if he had eaten, or
  not.

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And it all comes to an end..

• Retired from research in 1693 after suffering a
  nervous breakdown.
• Took a government position as Master of the Mint
  in 1699 and helped to prevent counterfeit of the
  coinage.
• Knighted in 1705 by Queen Anne.
• Died in 1727 at the age of 85.

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Some quotes from Newton...

• If I have been able to see further, it was only
  because I stood on the shoulders of
  giants.Letter to Robert Hooke
• I know not what I appear to the world, but to
  myself I seem to have been only like a boy
  playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in
  now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
  prettier shell, whilest the great ocean of truth
  lay all undiscovered before me.Quoted in D
  Brewster, Memoirs of Newton
• Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and
  not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.