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Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 (December 25, 1642 according to the Julian calendar
used in England at the time), in Wools Thorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was an English physicist,
mathematician, mechanical engineer and astronomer.

The son of a reasonably well-off farming family, his father died a few months before he was born.
Newton himself was a premature infant who was not expected to live. He obviously survived infancy,
but spent his formative early years living with his maternal grandmother, after his mother remarried.

A gifted child, Newton was said to be taken with building models, including a small, working flour
mill that used a mouse running in a wheel for power, and an elaborate system of sundials which was
accurate to the minute.

Probably the greatest of Isaac Newton's discoveries was laid down in Philosophiæ Naturalis
Principia Mathematica in 1687, known today as Newton's Laws of Motion.

Modern physics was founded on this work which demonstrated and explained how macroscopic objects
behave, both on Earth and in the heavens, with the help of three essential principles:

1. An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion at a constant
speed in a straight line unless an outside force acts upon it.
2. An object's acceleration is a function of the object's mass and the quantifiable amount of force
applied to the object.
3. When an object acts against another object, the second object reacts in an equal and opposite
manner against the first.

The first law, that of inertia, explains how objects in motion and at rest "prefer" to keep their existing
state as-is and resists change unless compelled by some force. This helps to explain acceleration,
deceleration, and the like.
The second law, that of force, can be summed up in the equation:

Force = mass x acceleration

This formula is essential to the mechanics of motion and defines the math that governs how the first
law of motion actually works in practice — that is, how much force needs to be applied to overcome an
object's inertia.

The third law, that of action and reaction, defines motion as an interaction of complementary forces. In
the case of an airplane, the shape of the wing pushes air down. In response, the air pushes against the
shape of the wing, lifting it up.

The wing, attached to a fuselage, pushes the plane up. The weight of the fuselage, attached to the wing,
pulls the wing down against the air in response.

There is much more that could be said about the Principia and its impact on modern science, but for
now, it's enough to say that it remained the bedrock of physical sciences for centuries and is still highly
relevant even to this day. 

Research From: https://interestingengineering.com/isaac-newton-the-father-of-modern-science