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    Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist born in 1642. He made seminal contributions to science, including inventing calculus and providing a clear understanding of optics. Most significantly, he developed the universal law of gravity, which states that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force proportional to its mass. Newton realized that the force of gravity causes apples and the moon to fall on Earth and allows the moon to orbit our planet. His work on gravity and mechanics proved the Earth orbits the sun rather than being the center of the universe.

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    Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist born in 1642. He made seminal contributions to science, including inventing calculus and providing a clear understanding of optics. Most significantly, he developed the universal law of gravity, which states that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force proportional to its mass. Newton realized that the force of gravity causes apples and the moon to fall on Earth and allows the moon to orbit our planet. His work on gravity and mechanics proved the Earth orbits the sun rather than being the center of the universe.

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    Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist born in 1642. He made seminal contributions to science, including inventing calculus and providing a clear understanding of optics. Most significantly, he developed the universal law of gravity, which states that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force proportional to its mass. Newton realized that the force of gravity causes apples and the moon to fall on Earth and allows the moon to orbit our planet. His work on gravity and mechanics proved the Earth orbits the sun rather than being the center of the universe.

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    Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton contributed


    significantly to the
    field of science over
    his lifetime. He
    invented calculus and
    provided a clear
    understanding of
    optics. But his most
    significant work had to
    do with forces, and specifically
    with the development of a
    universal law of gravity.

    Newton's life
    Born to a poor family in
    Woolsthorpe, England, in 1642,
    Isaac Newton attended trinity
    College in Cambridge, England
    only after it became apparent that
    he would never be a successful
    farmer. While there, he took
    interest in mathematics, optics,
    physics, and astronomy. After his
    graduation, he began to teach at
    the college, and was appointed as
    the second Lucasian Chair there.
    Today, the chair is considered the
    most renowned academic chair in
    the world.
    In 1689, Newton was elected as a
    member of parliament for the
    university. In 1703, he was elected
    as president of the Royal Society,
    a fellowship of scientists that still
    exists today. He was knighted By
    Queen Anne in 1705. He never
    married.

    Newton died in 1727, at the age of


    84. After his death, his body was
    moved to a more prominent place
    in Westminster. During the
    exhumation, large amounts of
    mercury were found in the
    scientist's system, likely due to his
    work with alchemy.
    The Discoverer of Gravity!

    Sir Isaac Newton was an English


    mathematician and
    mathematician and physicist who
    lived from 1642-1727.
    The legend is
    that Newton
    discovered
    Gravity when
    he saw a
    falling apple
    while thinking
    about the forces of nature.
    Whatever really happened,
    Newton realised that some force
    must be acting on falling objects
    like apples because otherwise
    they would not start moving from
    rest.
    Newton also realised that the
    moon would fly off away from
    Earth in a straight line tangent to
    its orbit if some force was not
    causing it to fall toward the Earth.
    The moon is only a projectile
    circling around the Earth under
    the attraction of Gravity.
    Newton called this force "gravity"
    and determined that gravitational
    forces exist between all objects.
    Using the idea of Gravity, Newton
    was able to explain the
    astronomical observations of
    Kepler.
    The work of Galileo, Brahe, Kepler,
    and Newton proved once and for
    all that the Earth wasn't the
    center of the solar system. The
    Earth, along with all other
    planets,orbits around the sun.
    Two astronomers, J.C. Adams and
    U.J.J. LeVerrier, later used the
    concept of Gravity to predict that
    the planet Neptune would be
    discovered. They realized that
    there must be another planet
    exerting a gravitational force on
    Uranus because Uranus had odd
    perturbations in its orbit.

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