Isaac Newton: My Acquaintance With His Legacy

“What goes up must come down” once said Sir Isaac Newton. Newton was born on January the fourth of 1643 in England, but during that time England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar we use today and used the Julian calendar which marked his birthday on December 25th of 1642. He was born prematurely to his widowed mother named Hannah. Newton’s father also named Isaac Newton had passed away three months before his birth. Newton did not have any biological siblings, he was an only child until his mother remarried to Reverend Barnabus Smith, and which resulted in children and became his half-siblings. His early education included going to school at The Kings School in Grantham, then being admitted to Trinity College in Cambridge where he obtained his degree.

Newton first considered gravitation from an apple incident where he saw an apple fall from a tree and gave him the ideas of gravity, such as the Law of Universal Gravitation. He published “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” which is commonly known to find his Three Laws of Motion. In mathematics, he has done some contributions to mathematics as well. The development of calculus can be partially credited to Newton, just because Gottfried Leibniz is also another person who helped him. Newton is well known as well for the study of power series, the binomial theorem, and also approximating the roots of a function.

I found it very interesting how he never married, or there were no women involved in his life. His mother was only his life for a short period of time and throughout some time she left him to live with her new husband after he died. Isaac Newton became “Sir” Isaac Newton on April 16, 1705 by the Queen Anne. Newton believed he was being knighted because of his contributions to science but she fooled him. The Parliament election was taking place during this time and she believed Newton’s political connection would help people’s spirits. One thing that I will never forget in my life was being in first grade and my teacher letting my classmates and I go outside and then letting us choose some type of clear crystal and use it to reflect the sun from it and look at the colors that would shoot out from the crystal, and then drawing what we saw on a piece of paper using the colors of the rainbow. This was probably one of the most memorable moments in my life because I was just astonished and full of excitement. Now being older and reading what Isaac Newton has done and discovering that he performed this many years ago and it is now a commonly known theory known as Newton’s theory of color, really mind blows me!