How Did Newton Contribute To The Laws Of Planetary Motion

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ir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician. He was more famously know for what everyone learns in science the law of gravitation which was apart of the scientific revolution. Newton was born on January 4th 1643, in Hamlet Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was an only child named after his father who sadly died three months after Newton's birth. His mother Hannah remarried and went to live with her new lover. Newton didn’t leave with his mother but instead went with his grandmother. The lose or more so the replacement he had to deal with brought the young man to be obsessed with the publishment of his work. At age twelve Newton was reunited with his mother after her second lover died, leaving her with three kids. Isaac …show more content…

Sadly in 1665 the Great plague was raving Europe and came to the university and was able to force it to close down.newton went back to his home to try to complete his studies. The plague lasted longer than 18 months, during that time Newton conceived the method of infinitesimal calculus, he set foundations for this theory of light and color. His theory of light and color gained significant insight to the Laws of Planetary motion. This lead to the publication of his Principia in 1687. The plague subsided in 1667 when he returned to Cambridge and was elected a minor fellow at Trinity College as he still wasn’t considered a standout scholar. Through his lucky improved, he received his master of arts degree in 1669, even before he was 27. Newton that came across Nicholas Mercator's published book on methods for dealing with infinite series. Newton quickly wrote a treatise, De Analysi, expounding his own wider-ranging results. He shared this with friend and mentor Isaac Barrow, but didn't include his name as author. In 1669 Barrow shared manuscript with British mathematician John Collins. Newton's work was brought to the attention of the mathematics community for the first time. Shortly afterward, Barrow resigned his Lucasian professorship at Cambridge, and Newton assumed the chair. As a professor, Newton was exempted from tutoring but required to deliver an annual course of lectures. He chose to deliver his work on optics as his initial topic. Part of Newton's study of optics was aided with the use of a reflecting telescope that he designed and constructed in 1668—his first major public scientific achievement. This invention helped prove his theory of light and color. the organization's interest encouraged Newton to publish his notes on light, optics and color in 1672; these notes were later published as part of Newton's

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