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Isaac Newton Contributions

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Jeff Brady
1/6/18
Astronomy
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Isaac Newton paper

Isaac Newton made massive contributions to society he covered most aspects of every science in general, with the most known contributions are his work in mathematics,astronomy and physics. Isaac Newton was an English scientist and mathematician. He made major contributions in mathematics and physics the study of the relationship between matter and energy and advanced the work of previous scientists on the laws of motion including the law of gravity. ‘Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, at Woolsthorpe, a village in southwestern Lincolnshire England. His father died two months before he was born. When he was three years old, his mother remarried and moved away, leaving Isaac in the care of his grandmother. After a basic education in local schools, at the age of twelve he was sent to the King 's School in Grantham England where he lived in the home of a pharmacist named Clark. Newton was interested in Clark 's chemical library and laboratory and built mechanical devices to amuse Clark 's daughter, including a windmill run by a live mouse, floating lanterns, and sundials. After Newton 's stepfather died his mother returned to Woolsthorpe and she pulled him out of school to help run the family farm. He preferred reading to working though and it became apparent that farming was not his destiny. At the age of nineteen he entered Trinity College Cambridge England. After receiving his bachelor 's degree

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