Why is Sir Isaac Newton a SIR?
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He was knighted, like Anthony Hopkins.  I think it's some title like KBE?
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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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He is God, he always existed. This is difficult for man to understand because we are not infinite creatures. The finite can never understand the infinite.
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Einstein and Newton didn't use their brains to the maximum extent.  They just used a lot more of their brains than most people.  Also, an IQ test can be used to test ones "brilliancy", but only if it is a good one.
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Newton's optics was based on light particles (photons). He could not have know about interference since no source of coherent light existed at the time for him to experiment with.
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Sir Issac Newton is considered to be the inventor of Calculus. However, that is a misconception. Neither Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz nor Sir Issac Newton is the ultimate creator of Calculus. They, perhaps, compiled the chaotic mathematical ideas into a subject named Calculus, but they definitely did not invent it.\n\nThe birth of Calculus, in a sense, is not like a birth of other subjects such as microeconomics or macroeconomics. Consider John Adams -- even if you did not learn about Economics at all, you probably heard the name mentioning several times from the movie Beautiful Mind --, for instance. He is basically considered to be the "the father of modern economics." During his period of time, no one really concerned much about economics though some philosophers and free thinkers thought about it. He basically invented and introduced the idea of economics into this world. But the subject Calculus is branch of Mathematics. To be specific, Calculus is the other ideas of mathematics that comes before it plus the concept of limit--that is what calculus is all about.\n\nSo, let's assume you cannot specifically name a person who invented calculus. Even so, is there any other person who devoted to himself or herself to the creation of Calculus beside Newton or Leibniz? Leonhard Euler, the invetor of so called "Euler's method" and other beautiful works, is one. Bernhard Riemann, a successor of transforming zeta function described by Euler into Riemann hypothesis, which is considered to be a most important unsolved mathematical idea, and familiar Riemann Sum, is another. Even after the deaths of Newton and Leibniz, the pursue to create a new part of Calculus has been continued. Taylor's series -- a way to approximate a nth term of a function with finite n -- has been invented. And the development of calculus still continues.
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I'm sure you know more about calculus than I do, but I had to mention that Neil Stephenson wrote a pretty good trilogy called the Baroque Cycle or something along those lines.  First book is called Quicksilver.  It's a historical fiction and it uses Newton and Leibniz as character as they work out the basics of calculus.  You might find it interesting.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/90841/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_b/103-2231829-6875059\n\nAs for the original question, Newton was first but he didn't publish first, so he didn't get the full credit.\n\nEdit: Yes, my grammar is very poor as I never did well in English class.  I'll try and fix things a little just for you. :)  I don't really think so.  It's pretty much 90% off topic by now.
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Christianity gave a boost to science because of its teaching that God is a God of order and not disorder and that natural laws could therefore be studied.  Sir Isaac Newton, for example, was a Christian who believed God's laws of nature could be discovered.
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He is related to the Founders.  It is explained in the Series.  It does make for an interesting nature vs nurture debate.
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Newton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (at Woolsthorpe Manor), a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. Newton was prematurely born and no one expected him to live; indeed, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, is reported to have said that his body at that time could have fit inside a quart mug (Bell, 1937). His father, Isaac, had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother.
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Any sections of the media which call him 'Sir' are wrong (as they so often are with titles). His kighthood is honorary, like Spike Milligan's (also Irish) and Steven Spielberg and Paul Getty's. Paul Getty did take out British citizenship enabling him to use his title. I doubt it means enough to Bob Geldof that he would bother doing so.
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he wrote the three laws of motion .\nJump to: navigation, search\n   Sir Isaac Newton \n\nSir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. \nBorn \n4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643\nWoolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England \nDied \n31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727\nKensington, London \nSir Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, chemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in which 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 objects 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 thirteenth 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. Despite this renown in mainstream science, Newton actually spent more time working on alchemy than physics, writing considerably more papers on the former than the latter24.\n\nNewton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, for example the generalized binomial theorem. 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." 20\n\nfor more info go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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Issac Newton\n\nGallileo however proved that gravitational 'time to fall'was the same for 2 objects of different weights. Gallileo died 11 months before Newton's birth. There work was very complimentary. Newton established the gravitational constant that both backs up Gallileo and demonstrated that it is also gravity that causes the planets to orbit the Sun. The apple under the tree is a bit of a myth!
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Hey babygurlgonnaloveonu you have asked what is totally QUESTION NUMBER ONE in physics. It's an exciting question which many teachers secretly don't understand and so their students get this hazy idea and kind of go thru the motions. \n\nWow, it is so basic, that it took a super-genius, I mean way smarter than Einstein, to figure it out. A good old farm boy, astrologer, magician & alchemist, religious fanatic, mathematician and all around kook. Yep. Sir Isaac Newton. You gotta wonder what kind of parents would name their kid "Sir"\n\nWell we all know what a force is, it is a sort of push or pull -- think of it as something that changes or *tries to change* the motion of stuff.\n\nNewton first figured out that if you leave a thing alone, or if the pushes and pulls on it cancel out, then it will sit there like a lump. Like those drivers wearing hats, and like sit there after the light has already turned green two minutes ago. \n\nOr else a thing  will keep moving in the same straight line direction and speed  like those drivers wearing hats who go 40 mph on the expressway with their turn signal blinking on and on. This is known as "THE HAT LAW".\n\nAll was well until he noticed that things move faster in an amount equal to how much you bully them or push them around. Twice the force, twice the fasterness and fasterness (also known as acceleration). This is called the "YOU BIG BULLY LAW".\n\nThen he discovered a fly in the ointment. His HAT and BULLY laws didn't really explain all that much. Something was gumming up this beautiful theory. We call it MASS and it is still an unknown mystery as to what it really is. So we vaguely call it the amount of stuff or matter in a thing. \n\nSo he found out that for a certain force the faster-isity (acceleration) is cut in half if you double the mass. The bully has to push twice as hard to fasterize two little kids. So he was like "I'll just add that in, and all will be cool". The "YOU BIG BULLY LAW" and "THE HAT LAW" totally did it all. Wa ta da babee!\n\nBut then Newton had a road accident. He was gunning his Harley over London bridge at like 250 when a bug  hit him in the mouth and knocked out one of his wooden teeth. He was all "Why am I so in pain?". And the bug as it squooshed said "Help! I'm a bug!"\n\nSo spitting out the splinters of his wooden tooth and the splattered bug, he had this revelation. He realized that because he was moving so fast, and the  bug slowed down so fast, that even a eentsy mass like a bug was like taking a hammer to his tooth. \n\nHe noticed that the force was equal to the mass of the bug times the speed of impact all happening in a brief moment. Since Newton spoke Latin (he  was the love child of Joe Newton and an Italian governess) he wrote "Fastus buggus ina momentum hurtus like crazy." Today we call this "momentum". It is just "mass times speed" or "force times a small moment of time". \n\nAnd he realized that the bug smashed up his tooth, but also that the bug was squashed (like a bug) because they were trading the EXACT same amount of momentum. The force on the tooth by the bug in the moment of time was PRECISELY equal to the  smacko-ing the tooth used to stop the bug dead. \n\nHe said "Hey, like he broke my tooth, but I killed him soooo dead!" He did the math and found that the force of the bug on the tooth was equal to the force of the tooth on the bug! \n\nNo way did the two equal forces cancel, after all, his tooth was hammered to splinters, and the bug was flattened. They were equal and opposite, but since one was on the tooth, and the other force was on the bug they did serious damage! Today we call this the "HELP I'M A BUG" law.\n\nNow our man 'Zack was all set. He wrote down his three laws:\n\nTHE HAT LAW (beeep! beeep! Move it Hat Guy!)\nTHE YOU BIG BULLY LAW (betcha can't kno
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Although Newton is regarded most for giving the world an understanding of gravity with his 3 laws, Newton was one of the greatest thinkers of all time in MANY scientific fields. See link below.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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All your answers can be found here.\n\nhttp://who2.com/ask/sirisaacnewton.html\n\nGood Luck