Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities
TIME LINE Hannah Ayscough marriers saac Newton a 142 yeoman farmer who dies six months later On Christmas Day Hannah gives birth to a son named Isaac 164 Hannah Newtonmaries Re Barnabas Smith and leaves Isaac at Woolsthorpe with his grandparents Newton starts grammar school in Grantham 16s Newton matriculates at Trinity College Cambridge University Newton earns his bachelor s degree but moves home 165 to Woolsthorpe when the plague strikes Cambridge Newton returns to Cambridge after the plague leaves 1687 In July Newton receives his master's degree 1668 In August Newton visits London where King Charles grants him an exemption from becoming ordained Newton reveals his invention a reflecting telescope 1669 Newton is named Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University 160 Newton gives the first of his lectures on opticks Newton is elected a fellow of the Royal Society 16 Newton publishes the Colon in the Philosophical Transactions 169 Hannah Newton dies Lomond Haley visite Cambridge to ask Newton 14 for answers to questions about planets orbits Newton begins writing the Principles as The Principia book is published by the Royal Society All three volumes of the Principles are published 18 Is Newton participates in the Glorious Revolution Newton is elected to Parliament 168 193 a Cambridge Newton experiences Newton moves to London to become 1896 warden of the Royal Mint Shoe Newton becomes master of the nine Newton is again elected to Parliament that and leaves Cambridge for good 103 Newton is elected president of the Royal Society Newton publishes the first edition of optics or possier Isaac Newton knighted by Queen Anne The Royal Society considers the priority had dispute between Newton and Leibnia 1727 Newton dies and is buried in Westminster Abbey
N WORDSWORTH a new one was some Isaac Newton's story inspired England's William Wordsworth whose poem The Boy of Winander in turn inspired this dreamlike painting of a boy lost in thought Library of Congress LC USZ62 93933
PREFACE THE BRILLIANT AND BIZARRE ISAAC NEWTON SS SAAC NEWTON HATED to count sheep every day every week over and over again In his tiny village of Woolsthorpe England in the 1650s losing your sheep meant losing your way of making a living But Isaac didn't care Raising sheep was boring He'd rather read one of the books lining the shelves in the house where he lived with his mother and grandparents He knew he was different He didn't feel like the other boys who were growing up to become farmers in Woolsthorpe Isaac Newton saw things in a unique way Isaac saw patterns He saw the rhythm of every day life sunrise to sunset spring to summer to autumn to winter He saw patterns as the sun moon and stars steadily marched overhead He couldn't touch anything up there but still he wondered whether heavenly bodies moved according to the same rules that worked down
Isaac built tiny windmills water clocks sundials and kites and saw patterns in how wind water and the sun made them work Through his own eyes and the touch of his fingers the boy sensed that the uni verse both Earth and sky were one and the same Isaac started to suspect that a universal something makes things go When Isaac Newton was a boy people were just starting to give up the idea that the sun moon and stars revolved around the earth At school during the week and in church on Sundays Isaac might have heard that God had set the earth and the humans on it in the middle of the universe Only a bold few far away from Woolsthorpe questioned the core belief that the earth lay in the center of it all By the time Isaac started at university this geo centric Earth centered view of the cosmos had changed But like every university student Isaac still studied the classics especially the ancient Greeks Greek thinkers rarely questioned geocentrism Aris totle foremost of the Greek philosophers believed that the moon sun and stars all journeyed around the earth in their own crystal spheres Aristotle taught that nothing beyond the sphere of the moon ever changed What was more Isaac's professors agreed with Aristotle Aristotle didn't think of the universe as a single unit Instead he thought that the cosmos was divided in two parts up there and down
