Zander Inventor Grade 6
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Sir Isaac Newton: Childhood
The causes and effects of Newton's childhood
- Newton was born three months after the death of his father.
- Due to this Isaac never had a masculine or father figure in his life which led him to rebel.
- Because of this, young Isaac developed a pure hatred for women. Also, he disliked his stepfather and held some hostility towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this quote:" I remember threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them."
3. He was removed
from school, and by October 1659, he was found at
Woolsthorpe near Colsterworth, where his mother, widowed now for a second
time, attempted to make a farmer of him.
He hated farming.Henry
Stokes, master the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school
so that he might complete his education. This he did at the age of eighteen,
achieving an excellent set of results.
Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Wools -Thorpe,
England. He was an established physicist, mathematician and inventor and is known
as one of the greatest minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. With
discoveries in optics, laws of motion and mathematics, Newton developed the
principles of modern physics. In 1687, he published his most acclaimed work,
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy), which is one of the single most influential books on
physics that has ultimately changed the world.
Newton was fascinated with more advanced science. All his
spare time was spent reading books written by modern philosophers. While Newton
was in Cambridge, he kept a set of notes, entitled "Quaestiones Quaedam
Philosophicae" ("Certain Philosophical Questions"). The questions
reveal that Newton had discovered the new concept of nature that provided the structure
for the Scientific Revolution.
Unfortunately, in 1665, the Great Plague that was ravaging
Europe had come to Cambridge, forcing the university to close. Newton returned
home to pursue his private study, and it was was during this 18-month gap that
he conceived the method of infinitesimal calculus, set foundations for his
theory of light and colour and gained significant insight into the laws of
planetary motion. At this time, Newton experienced his famous inspiration of gravity
with the falling apple. This great man died in London on March 31, 1727 from a
violent cough, inflammation of the lugs and a kidney stone.
Sunday, 14 September 2014
The Grade 6 class, including me, have been doing a very fascinating project to do with the spectacular European Renaissance which has been great fun. Learning about regal explorers, amazing artists and curious inventors has been an intriguing process which has shown the magnificent developments throughout history. It just goes to show that when you are fascinated with the world and work timelessly to reach your goal, great and unlimited things can happen. I am doing an intellectual inventor called Isaac Newton who made so many wonderful discoveries that have changed the world today.
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