Born on January 4, 1643, one of the most brilliant minds that dictated the course of macrophysics and various fields of sciences was born. Sir Isaac Newton is truly renowned for his numerous conquests in the name of science. Although many knew him for the apple that fell on his head, he lived a bizarre and eventful life.
Isaac's Young and Mischievous Life
The world today is all too familiar with the boredom and restrictions placed in a global pandemic due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike many who binged watch endless seasons of their favorite shows, Isaac Newton spent his time sticking large objects into his eyeballs until he coined the theory of light, according to the Newton Project UK.
Newton spent his days formulating various theories on calculus, color, and light with his farm as the setting for the age-old falling on an apple that inspired his revolutionary work on gravity as Cambridge was shut down by the Great Plague.
In 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge. After being elected as a minor fellow, he designed his first reflecting telescope in 1668 and subsequently received his Masters of Arts degree. Later, he took over as Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and was asked to demonstrate his telescope at the Royal Society of London in 1671.
In 1684, Edmund Halley, an English astronomer, visited that recluse Newton upon learning that he worked out the mathematics behind the elliptical paths of celestial bodies. Halley urged Isaac to compile his notes that later resulted in the 1687 publication of 'Philosphiae Naturalis Prinicipia Mathematica' or the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy that established the 3 known laws of motions and the laws of universal gravity.
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