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Isaac Newton: A Mathematician, a Physicist, a Scientist (1643-1727)

By Matthew Moody

Have you ever wondered about our world and universe?  Well, Isaac Newton did and learned a lot.  Isaac Newton was a mathematician, a physicist, a scientist.  Isaac Newton was an extraordinary scientist.  Newton discoveries told us lots about our world and universe.  He made laws of light, gravity and motion.  He taught us that white light is really every color combined.  Isaac was an amazing person.  We can still benefit from his discoveries today.

Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643 in Lincolnshire, England.  His father, a prosperous farmer, died three months before Isaac was born.  As a child Isaac hated farming, but enjoyed making sundials and wind mills.  When Isaac Newton’s mother married again he left to live with his grand parents.  This make Isaac feel insecure.  newton went to school though he was poor.  He knew the importance but returned home when a plague broke out.  While at home he made wet important discoveries about light and gravity.

Isaac had an interesting personality.  He liked to be alone and didn't always share his discoveries at first.  in 1696 he became head of the  coin mint in which he was in charge of collecting coins and remaking them.  Lots of the coins were counterfeit.  e dressed up in disguises and caught the counterfeiters himself.Some say that Isaac Newton was not the best (some say) because he spent half his career trying to find the Philosopher's Stone.  Newton predicted that the world would end no sooner than 2060.  “This I  mention not to assert when the end of time will be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end and b doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.”  Isaac never married but was kind to his family and to the people he worked with.  just like some modern scientists Isaac was a Christian but didn’t let that affect his discoveries.

Isaac Newton was an excellent mathematician and physicist.  He invented the math form called calculus. He described laws about light and gravity.  Gravity, he said, was the attraction of the mass of two objects.  He said that light was made up of many colors as long as it was white.  Isaac said that something like a tree is green because it absorbs all of the colors but reflects only green light.  Of course he wasn’t rich so  that shows that anyone can make a discovery.

In conclusion, Isaac Newton was an amazing scientist.  Even with his interesting background he still went to school.  he shows us that you need to go to school.  He worded hard for money to get an education.  On March 31, 1727 Newton died.  Some said that he got mercury poisoning in one of his experiments.  Although he is not here we can still benefit from his discoveries.