Isaac Newton's Accomplishments

Isaac Newton was born January 4th, 1613 and passed away March 31st, 1727. His full name was Sir Isaac Newton. English physicist and mathematician. The son of a yeoman, he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he discovered the work of René Descartes. He built the first reflecting telescope in 1668 and became a professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1669. He worked out the fundamentals of calculus, though this work went unpublished for more than 30 years.

He was known for inventing calculus in the mid to late 1660’s. He had almost given up on education. Issac Newton never got married. His mother originally wanted him to be a farmer. He was a professor at Cambridge collage and his lectures had been poorly attended. Sir Isaac Newton developed the three basic laws of motion and the theory of universal gravity. He rose to become the most influential scientist of the 17th century, his ideas became the foundation of modern physics, after very humble beginnings.

Newton's laws of motion were universal, people could apply them to understand the motion of things on Earth, but also in the stars, so this was a major contribution to both physics and astronomy. His main accomplishments were Inventing the reflecting telescope,

He bought a book on the subject and couldn't comprehend it. After getting his bachelor's degree in 1665 he studied math, physics, optics and astronomy on his own (Cambridge was closed for a couple of years due to the plague known as the Black Death). By 1666 he had completed his early work on his three laws of motion. Later he got his master's degree. Later work focused on the diffraction of light (he used a prism to discover that white light is made of a spectrum of colors) and the concepts he'd become known for universal gravitation, centrifugal force, centripetal force, and the effects and characteristics of bodies in motion. His laws are still used by physics students