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Sir Isaac Newton
Dialogue with Daniel Zwerdling, author of 'The Last Sorcerer', from NPR.
http://www.isaac-newton.info/

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Sir Isaac NEWTON
Br¨ve biographie et pr©sentation de ses travaux dans les domaines de la m©canique, de l'optique, de l'astronomie et des math©matiques.
http://hebergement.ac-poitiers.fr/c-fr-poitiers/newton/
Newton Portraits
sir isaac newton. From a portrait by Enoch Seeman in 1726. Detail from a portraitby John Vanderbank in 1725 The original is in Trinity College, Cambridge.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html
Index
A tonguein-cheek collection of facts about newton, Liebniz, and Kepler.
http://geocities.com/sirisaacnewton2001/

Extractions: A Few Pictures of the Man Himself Sir Isaac Newton Resource Page The Number One Resource For Isaac Newton Facts on the Internet* I'm sorry if the consummate professionalism of this page makes you feel self-conscious about your own page. If you have any facts about Isaac Newton that I have missed, e-mail me at delazach@hotmail.com Also, if you choose to use this page as the basis of a report for school, e-mail me and tell me how you did on the paper, so that I may improve this page for others. This page is meant to be used as a resource for people doing reports or who are curious about the greatest mathematician of our time, Sir Isaac Newton. A lot of what you find on this page may have been glossed over or flat-out denied in the textbooks. In my extensive studies of him, I have found a lot of things about his life that were not previously known. Anyway, feel free to use any of the information on this page in a paper, thesis, or just in conversation. And enjoy learning about my favorite mathematician of all time. Facts:
Newton
Detailed biography of the mathematician and physicist describes his life, his many discoveries and the works he published. Read quotations. sir isaac newton. Born 4 Jan 1643 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html

Extractions: Isaac Newton 's life can be divided into three quite distinct periods. The first is his boyhood days from 1643 up to his appointment to a chair in 1669. The second period from 1669 to 1687 was the highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge. The third period (nearly as long as the other two combined) saw Newton as a highly paid government official in London with little further interest in mathematical research. Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, we give the date of 4 January 1643 in this biography which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England until 1752.) Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was born. Although Isaac's father owned property and animals which made him quite a wealthy man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name. You can see a picture of Woolsthorpe Manor as it is now Isaac's mother Hannah Ayscough remarried Barnabas Smith the minister of the church at North Witham, a nearby village, when Isaac was two years old. The young child was then left in the care of his grandmother Margery Ayscough at Woolsthorpe. Basically treated as an orphan, Isaac did not have a happy childhood. His grandfather James Ayscough was never mentioned by Isaac in later life and the fact that James left nothing to Isaac in his will, made when the boy was ten years old, suggests that there was no love lost between the two. There is no doubt that Isaac felt very bitter towards his mother and his step-father Barnabas Smith. When examining his sins at age nineteen, Isaac listed:-
Overview Of The Library Collections
Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A collection which dates from the Society's founding in 1743. Includes first editions of sir isaac newton's 'Principia' and Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species.' Areas of particular strength 18th and 19th century natural history, the history of genetics and eugenics in America, quantum mechanics, and the development of cultural anthropology in America. Research grants and fellowships are available. Research affiliation Research Library Group.
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/

Extractions: Overview of the Library Collections The American Philosophical Society Library is a major national center for research in the history of the sciences, medicine, and technology. With its roots extending back to the founding of the Society in 1743, it houses over 300,000 volumes and bound periodicals, eight million manuscripts, 100,000 images, and thousands of hours of audio tape. Among the many extraordinary books in the collections of printed materials are first editions of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia , Charles Darwin's Origin of Species , a presentation copy of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , the elephant folio of Audubon's Birds of North America (for which the A.P.S. was an original subscriber), as well as a majority of Benjamin Franklin imprints and a significant portion of Franklin's personal library. Peter Stephen Duponceau (1760-1844), APS 1791 Manuscript collections range from eighteenth-century natural history, American Indian linguistics and culture , to nuclear physics, computer development, and medical science . The Library is among the premier institutions in the nation for documenting the history of genetics and eugenics , the study of natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries, quantum mechanics , and the development of cultural anthropology in America.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Invented the differential and integral calculus (independently of sir isaac newton),
http://mally.stanford.edu/leibniz.html

Extractions: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (b. 1646, d. 1716) was a German philosopher, mathematician, and logician who is probably most well known for having invented the differential and integral calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton). In his correspondence with the leading intellectual and political figures of his era, he discussed mathematics, logic, science, history, law, and theology. Principal Works: Leibniz's Life: Born July 1, 1646, in Leipzig 1661, entered University of Leipzig (as a law student) 1663, baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui (`On the Principle of the Individual') 1667, entered the service of the Baron of Boineburg 1672 - 1676, lived in Paris (met Malebranche, Arnauld, Huygens)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
sir isaac newton (16421727). (The following excepts are by no means representativeof the range of the mathematical work of sir isaac newton.)
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/
Genealogy Of Borodenko, Bowser, Fawcett, Newton And Radford
Canadian Connection. Surnames include Bowser, Geisler, and Radford. The descendants of sir isaac newton's family are also listed.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~radfordfamily/

Extractions: The Canadian Connection to the Borodenko, Bowser, Geisler, Fawcett, Haus, Newton, Pohl, Radford Family History Table of Contents Randall Radford Please, no rants or rages this is only a hobby. If you should have any additions, corrections or questions please email me. My Ged.com file can be downloaded from Rootsweb.com WorldConnect Project
John Kingman Symposium
This meeting is organised to mark the occasion of sir John Kingman leaving Bristol to take up the Directorship of the isaac newton Institute in Cambridge. The programme will focus on topics of current interest in probability and related fields where John Kingman's own work has been particularly influential. University of Bristol, UK; 16 May 2001.
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/~peter/jfck.html

Extractions: 16 May 2001 This meeting is organised to mark the occasion of Sir John Kingman leaving Bristol to take up the Directorship of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. The programme will focus on topics of current interest in probability and related fields where John Kingman's own work has been particularly influential. The programme of talks will include: Simon Tavare' (Departments of Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California) The coalescent and other GEMs: adventures in population genetics David Williams (Swansea) Achievements and challenges Wilfrid Kendall (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick) Evolving backwards into the past: a retrospective The meeting will be held in lecture theatre SM2 in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, and will conclude at about 6pm; attendance is free of charge. To assist us in planning, please send an email to P.J.Green@bristol.ac.uk mentioning JFCK in the subject field, if the probability of your attending is at least 0.5.
Isaac Newton Links
From The isaac newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.Category Society History By Topic Science Papers of sir isaac newton in Cambridge University Library The most complete collectionof newton's scientific papers (held on microfilm, viewing by appointment
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newton.html

Extractions: Here at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we are often asked about Newton's life and works. There are already many excellent and informative Web sites and books about Newton, so rather than duplicate those, we have put together a guide to some of the places, both real and virtual, where you can find out more. The Newton Institute Newton and Cambridge Newton's Birthplace Isaac Newton on the Web Newton and Cambridge Trinity College contains about five portraits of Newton, and the famous
Department Of Physics | Faculty Of Science | University Of Waterloo
Includes news and events, information about colloquia and seminars as well as general information for students. Also features information about the sir isaac newton Examination.
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/physics/
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biography
2, pp. 1516, Winter 1991. Andrade, E. N. da C. sir isaac newton. GreenwoodPub., 1979. Bell, E. T. On the Seashore newton. Ch.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html

Extractions: English physicist and mathematician who was born into a poor farming family. Luckily for humanity, Newton was not a good farmer, and was sent to Cambridge to study to become a preacher. At Cambridge, Newton studied mathematics, being especially strongly influenced by Euclid , although he was also influenced by Baconian and Cartesian philosophies. Newton was forced to leave Cambridge when it was closed because of the plague, and it was during this period that he made some of his most significant discoveries. With the reticence he was to show later in life, Newton did not, however, publish his results. Newton suffered a mental breakdown in 1675 and was still recovering through 1679. In response to a letter from Hooke , he suggested that a particle, if released, would spiral in to the center of the Earth Hooke wrote back, claiming that the path would not be a spiral, but an ellipse Newton, who hated being bested, then proceeded to work out the mathematics of orbits. Again, he did not publish his calculations. Newton then began devoting his efforts to theological speculation and put the calculations on elliptical motion aside, telling Halley he had lost them (Westfall 1993, p. 403).
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Woolsthorpe Manor
Small 17thcentury manor house, the birthplace and family home of sir isaac newton. National Trust property page with information about opening times and facilities.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPE
Sir Isaac Newton And The Unification Of Physics & Astronomy
sir isaac newton and the Unification of Physics Astronomy sir isaacnewton (16421727) was by many standards the most important
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton.html

Extractions: Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was by many standards the most important figure in the development of modern science. Many would credit he and Einstein with being the most original thinkers in that development. Newton's accomplishments were of astonishingly broad scope. For example, as a sidelight to his fundamental contributions in physics and astronomy, he (in parallel with Liebnitz) invented the mathematical discipline of calculus, so if you have to take both physics and calculus courses, you have Newton to blame! No survey course such as this one can possibly do justice to what Newton accomplished. The poet Alexander Pope was moved to pen the lines Nature and Nature's laws and all was light and a study of Newton's discoveries suggests that Pope was indulging only slightly in hyperbole. We shall concentrate on three developments of most direct relevance to our discussion: (1) Newton's Three Laws of Motion, (2) the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and (3) the demonstration that Kepler's Laws follow from the Law of Gravitation. Kepler had proposed three Laws of Planetary motion based on the systematics that he found in Brahe's data. These Laws were supposed to apply only to the motions of the planets; they said nothing about any other motion in the Universe. Further, they were purely empirical: they worked, but no one knew a fundamental reason WHY they should work.
Sir Isaac Newton On The Bible
sir isaac newton ON THE BIBLE. by Dr. A. Zahoor. Click here to proceed.
http://users.erols.com/zenithco/newton1.html
Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law Of Gravitation
Provides a simple introduction to the law for which newton is best known.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html

Extractions: There is a popular story that Newton was sitting under an apple tree, an apple fell on his head, and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation. As in all such legends, this is almost certainly not true in its details, but the story contains elements of what actually happened. Probably the more correct version of the story is that Newton, upon observing an apple fall from a tree, began to think along the following lines: The apple is accelerated, since its velocity changes from zero as it is hanging on the tree and moves toward the ground. Thus, by Newton's 2nd Law there must be a force that acts on the apple to cause this acceleration. Let's call this force "gravity", and the associated acceleration the "accleration due to gravity". Then imagine the apple tree is twice as high. Again, we expect the apple to be accelerated toward the ground, so this suggests that this force that we call gravity reaches to the top of the tallest apple tree. Now came Newton's truly brilliant insight: if the force of gravity reaches to the top of the highest tree, might it not reach even further; in particular, might it not reach all the way to the orbit of the Moon! Then, the orbit of the Moon about the Earth could be a consequence of the gravitational force, because the acceleration due to gravity could change the velocity of the Moon in just such a way that it followed an orbit around the earth.
Newton, Sir Isaac
newton, sir isaac. sir isaac newton, the culminating figure in the scientificrevolution of the 17th century, was born on Jan. 4, 1643 (NS; Dec.
http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/newton.html

Extractions: Newton, Sir Isaac Sir Isaac Newton, the culminating figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, was born on Jan. 4, 1643 (N.S.; Dec. 25, 1642, O.S.), in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Perhaps the greatest scientific genius of all time, Newton made fundamental contributions to every major area of scientific and mathematical concern to his generation. Newton came from a family of modest yeoman farmers. His father died several months before he was born. Three years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death of his stepfather in 1656, Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham in hopes of training him to manage her now much-enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Even though instruction at Cambridge was still dominated by the philosophy of Aristotle, some freedom of study was permitted in the student's third year. Newton immersed himself in the new mechanical philosophy of DESCARTES, GASSENDI, and BOYLE; in the new algebra and analytical geometry of VIETA, Descartes, and WALLIS; and in the mechanics and Copernican astronomy of GALILEO. At this stage Newton showed no great talent. His scientific genius emerged suddenly when the plague closed the University in the summer of 1665 and he had to return to Lincolnshire. There, within 18 months he began revolutionary advances in mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy.
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Article provides a summary of newton's life, education, and accomplishments. Includes a look at his impact on science.
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