Sir Issac Newton Traditional Cache
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path. Parking coordinates are given...HOWEVER...they are at the
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Sir Issac Newton
Issac Newton Scientist and Mathematician, 1642 - 1727 Isaac Newton
was born on December 25, 1642 (by the Julian calendar then in use;
or January 4, 1643 by the current Gregorian calendar) in
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. He was born
the same year Galileo died. Newton is clearly the most influential
scientist who ever lived. His accomplishments in mathematics,
optics, and physics laid the foundations for modern science and
revolutionized the world.
Newton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where he lived
from 1661 to 1696. During this period he produced the bulk of his
work on mathematics. In 1696 he was appointed Master of the Royal
Mint, and moved to London, where he resided until his death.
As mathematician, Newton invented integral calculus, and jointly
with Leibnitz, differential calculus. He also calculated a formula
for finding the velocity of sound in a gas which was later
corrected by Laplace.
Newton made a huge impact on theoretical astronomy. He defined the
laws of motion and universal gravitation which he used to predict
precisely the motions of stars, and the planets around the sun.
Using his discoveries in optics Newton constructed the first
reflecting telescope. Newton found science a hodgepodge of isolated
facts and laws, capable of describing some phenomena, but
predicting only a few. He left it with a unified system of laws
that can be applied to an enormous range of physical phenomena, and
that can be used to make exact predications.
Newton published his works in two books, namely "Opticks" and
"Principia." Newton died in London on March 20, 1727 and was buried
in Westminster Abbey, the first scientist to be accorded this
honor. A review of an encyclopedia of science will reveal at least
two to three times more references to Newton than any other
individual scientist. An 18th century poem written by Alexander
Pope about Sir Isaac Newton states it best: “Nature and
Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all
was light.”
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