Does anybody know any interesting facts about Sir Isaac Newton? THEY MUST BE TRUE!?
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they peformed his experiement when we went to the moon...\n\nthere is video of an astronaut dropping a feather and a bowling ball at the same time and guess what when gravity is absent they both fall at the same rate...
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newton discovered it.but Einstein proved it is not.one day he photograph the stars continuously at one photograph it's slightly move in zig zag.
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In I. Newton's time. It was 1805. But I have to find out more.\nIsaac Newton(1642-1726) published the manuscript of Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica,in April,1686.\nThe law of universal gravitation=\nf=Gmm'/d^2, where G is given as 6.6732*10^(-11) Nm/kg,where N=Newton, a unit for measuring force.\nThe date of publication is not exactly the same date of discovery, normally it is a short time earlier.\nCharles Darwin published his work on evolution, but he had worked on it for 20 some years before his publication. Another man had the same idea about evolution, but only jointly published a short paper with Charles Darwin.\nTherefore, the exact date of discovery of something, is a thesis subject.
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http://www.westegg.com/einstein/\n\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html\n\nhttp://cosmicvariance.com/2005/11/18/celebrity-throwdown-einstein-versus-newton
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This goes back to the famous story where Newton was sitting under a tree and he saw an apple fall.  Whether or not that is true, it says that he made the connection that the same force that caused the apple to fall was the force that caused the moon to orbit the Earth.  From there, he developed the Universal Law of Gravitation.  \n\nThis was all published in his masterpiece: Principia Mathematica.  It was published in 1687, although he had the work finished a lot earlier.  He was afraid to publish it.
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Newton didn't derive it mathematically at first. He hypothesized it. That said, it is possible to derive it from Kepler's laws *if* you assume Newtonian physics in the form of F=ma. It turns out that Kepler's third law (about areas) shows that the force is a central one (pointed in the direction of the sun). That planets move in ellipses then restricts the possibilities to the inverse square law or the harmonic oscillator law. The fact that the sun is at a focus gives the inverse square law.
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Through a wild set of circumstances that took place in Beverly Hills, California, rumors started spreading that Rory Emerald, the famed celebrity, had aided Isaac Newton in his discovery of gravity.  It all started when a former silent film star, Fig Newton, started wandering the streets of Los Angeles, claiming to be a descendant of the famed scientist.  His delusions were met with skepticism, and he was finally institutionalized. Rory Emerald was doing some background research on his upcoming audition as “Frankie” for “Beach Blanket Bingo” and naturally went to the Sunnyville Mental Institution to interview psychiatric patients.  Rory Emerald was enchanted with Fig Newton and his claims.  After several months of continuous questioning, Rory Emerald began to realize that Fig Newton was not delusional - he was indeed a descendant of the famed scientist.  It all fit after painstaking research. \n\n It was then that Rory Emerald starting corresponding with Oxford University in England to discuss his findings.  He was amazed by his discovery, and anxious to share it with the scientific world.  Somehow, scientists at Oxford misinterpreted Rory’s letters and thought he was claiming to be an apprentice of Isaac Newton, and had come forward in time through a time machine to teach modern science.   Several scientists flew to Los Angeles immediately to meet the weary time traveler. These scientists held press conferences upon their arrival in the Golden State.  The media was shocked to discover that the man who assisted in the landmark discovery of gravity resided in their city in the year 1965.  They believed what they were told by the prestigious Oxford professors, and the news spread like wildfire throughout the city and the world.  \n\nRory Emerald was shocked to discover his name on the front pages of Variety, along with a full story of his time travel.  How did the story get so convoluted?  He was further appalled to learn that he was somehow involved with the discovery of gravity.  When he met the scientists from Oxford, they were naturally embarrassed by the actual story and pleaded with Rory Emerald to go along with them.  They taught him all of the correct scientific jargon and physics of gravity, and even designed a small bogus time machine made from a used dumpster, which appeared authentic.  Their sinister actions, along with Rory Emerald’s naïve compliance, started the biggest hoax perpetrated on the scientific world.  It was only 11 years later, when the hoax was exposed by a dying Oxford delegate.  By this time, Rory Emerald’s bizarre antics were accepted and he took very little flak over this indiscretion.  For the previous decade, Rory Emerald had basked in the role as “the Gravity Guru” and shamelessly exploited his fame to have many sexual encounters.
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Isaac Newton allowed sunlight from a small, circular hole to fall on a prism, producing a rainbow of color. Although the production of a rainbow by a clear crystal was known to the ancients, it was Newton who showed that the colors did not originate in the crystal, but rather were components of sunlight. This array of colors he called a spectrum. \n\nHere is how the great man explained it: \n\n"And so the true Cause of the Length of that Image was detected to be no other, than that Light is not similar or Homogenial, but consists of Difform Rays, some of which are more Refrangible than others." \n \n\nIn addition, Newton was able to produce a spectrum from white light and then recombine the spectrum colors to get the white light back again. \n\nYears later, in Opticks, Query 29, he gave the following mechanism for the fact that the colors refracted from the greatest amount (violet) through blue, green, yellow, orange (which he does not mention) and to the least amount (red): \n\n"Nothing is more requisite for producing all the variety of Colours, and degrees of Refrangibility than that the Rays of Light be Bodies of different Sizes, the least of which may take violet the weakest and darkest of the Colours, and be more easily diverted by refracting Surfaces from the right Course; and the rest as they are bigger and bigger, may make the stronger and more lucid colours, blue, green, yellow, and red, and be more and more difficultly diverted." \nThis explanation is a particle-based one: light particles are of different sizes.
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Robert Hooke, b 18 July 1635, d 3 March 1703. Best known for Hooke's law (Stress is proportional to strain, i.e. if you pull an elastic band, it gets longer)\n\nRobert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time. The inventor of, amongst other things, the iris diaphragm in cameras, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch, the originator of the word 'cell' in biology, he was Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666, architect, experimenter, and worked in astronomy. He fell out with Newton, and certainly had a difficult temperament. He deserves more from history than he received in his lifetime.\n\nRobert Hooke was born at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, son of John Hooke, curate at All Saints' Church. The church stands at the end of what is now Hooke Road, which also has the Hooke Museum. Robert Hooke was one of the most brilliant and versatile of seventeenth-century English scientists, but he is also one of the lesser known; his persona and his contributions are far outweighed in public perception by those of Newton and of Wren. \n\nNo likeness exists of Robert Hooke. Hooke was origianlly buried at St Helen's Bishopsgate, but his bones were moved to 'somewhere in North London' in the 19th century, so his final burial place is unknown.\n\nHe is described by two people. Firstly his friend John Aubrey, on Hooke in middle life:\n\n'He is but of midling stature, something crooked, pale faced, and his face but little below, but his head is lardge, his eie full and popping, and not quick; a grey eie. He haz a delicate head of haire, browne, and of an excellent moist curle. He is and ever was temperate and moderate in dyet, etc.'\n\nRichard Waller knew the elderly Hooke, embittered by his controversies with Christiaan Huyghens and his feeling that he had been cheated by Newton:\n\n'As to his person he was but despicable, being very crooked, tho' I have heard from himself, and others, that he was strait till about 16 Years of Age when he first grew awry, by frequent practicing, with a Turn-Lath . . . He was always very pale and lean, and laterly nothing but Skin and Bone, with a meagre aspect, his eyes grey and full, with a sharp ingenious Look whilst younger; his nose but thin, of a moderate height and length; his mouth meanly wise, and upper lip thin; his chin sharp, and Forehead large; his Head of a middle size. He wore his own hair of a dark Brown colour, very long and hanging neglected over his Face uncut and lank....'\n\nThis is not a flattering description; even Aubrey's is hardly complimentary.\n\nHooke came to Westminster School during the first decade of Dr Busby's 55 year incumbency as Head Master. He remained on good terms with Busby, indeed the only remaining building that is certainly Hooke's architecture alone is the parish church at Willen, in Buckinghamshire, which was Busby's living. At Westminster Hooke was said to have acquired mastery of ancient languages, learned to play the organ, 'contrived severall ways of flying', and mastered the first six books of Euclid's Elements in a week.\n\nHooke acquired a place as chorister at Christ Church Oxford, leaving Westminster in 1653. The chorister role may have been simply that Hooke received a modest endowment, since the Anglican Church was abolished between 1643 and 1660. In Oxford Hooke met those who would go on to form the Royal Society, and where he was encouraged in a wide variety of scientific endeavours. In 1658 he became assistant to Robert Boyle, where his mechanical skills were of use especially in the construction of the improved version of the air pump of Otto Guericke described in Boyle's New Experiments PhysicoMechanicall (1660). In 1662 Hooke was appointed Curator of Experiments to the newly founded Royal Society, being responsible for the experiments performed at its weekly meetings. This role was as that of a
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I never heard that story, it strikes me as contrived bollox anyway, but no, it makes no difference.   Anyone that thinks it matters is searching desperately for something to substantiate that anti-intellectual horror: creationism.  Science works because it outlasts every individual scientist, to be tested and refined again by the next generation of open minded clever people.  Evolution has, er, evolved quite a lot since Darwin's time, and many of the puzzles left by him have been solved.   If Newton had recanted, apples would still fall to the ground.
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, \n\n\n(4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of bodies on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars.\n\nAmong Westerners, Newton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, having derived the binomial theorem in its entirety. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish
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I don't know the IQ of Newton.  No one does -- since he died before the IQ test was invented.\n\nHowever, I know that he was smarter than I am (at least when he was young -- he suffered from Mercury Poisoning later in life).  Therefore, I can put a lower bound on his IQ.\n\nThe average PhD has an IQ of 140.  I suspect that his was much higher.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation
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Leibniz and Newton pulled these ideas together into a coherent whole and they are usually credited with the probably independent and nearly simultaneous "invention" of calculus. Newton was the first to apply calculus to general physics and Leibniz developed much of the notation used in calculus today; he often spent days determining appropriate symbols for concepts. The fundamental insight that both Newton and Leibniz had was the fundamental theorem of calculus. This theorem and its consequences have proven indispensable in the development of mathematics and the physical sciences.\n\nWhen Newton and Leibniz first published their results, there was some controversy over whether Leibniz's work was independent of Newton's. While Newton derived his results years before Leibniz, it was only some time after Leibniz published in 1684 that Newton published. Later, Newton would claim that Leibniz got the idea from Newton's notes on the subject; however examination of the papers of Leibniz and Newton show they arrived at their results independently, with Leibniz starting first with integration and Newton with differentiation. This controversy between Leibniz and Newton divided English-speaking mathematicians from those in Europe for many years, which slowed the development of mathematical analysis. Today, both Newton and Leibniz are given credit for independently developing calculus\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus\n\nNewton and Leibniz are usually credited with the invention, independently of one another in the late 1600s, of differential and integral calculus as we know it today. Their most important contributions were the development of the fundamental theorem of calculus. Also, Leibniz did a great deal of work with developing consistent and useful notation and concepts. Newton was the first to organize the field into one consistent subject, and also provided some of the first and most important applications, especially of integral calculus.\n\nMuch of the controversy centers on certain early manuscripts of Newton's that Leibniz may have had access to. Newton began his work on calculus at least as early as 1666, giving plenty of time for this to occur, as Leibniz did not begin his work until 1676. Leibniz was in England in 1673 and 1676, and probably did see some of Newton's manuscripts. It is not known how much this may have influenced Leibniz. Both Newton and Leibniz claimed that the other plagiarized their respective works. In fact, they may very well have influenced one another, but it is now widely accepted that the two developed their ideas mostly independently.\n\nThe work of both Newton and Leibniz is reflected in the notation used today. Newton was responsible for the  and the  notations, both very common in physics and mathematics. Leibniz was responsible for the  notation that is also very popular, particularly for problems in multivariate calculus.\n\nfor a more detailed info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy
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Einstein... wait no was it newton... ya it was newton not einstein and plus those people who signed that delcaration of independence count too...
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Kepler figured out the laws that describe planetary orbits.  This enabled much more accurate planetary positions (which Kepler published), and set the stage for Isaac Newton to explain that gravity  was the force that held the planets in their orbits.\n\nUp until Kepler, everyone was sure that planetary orbits must be some form of perfect circle. His discovery that they are actually elliptical was an important turning point in the history of science, away from the Aristotelian method of applying philosophical concepts to physical reality, and towards modern empirical science.
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!