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My favorite person from history

Isaac Newton
ISAAC NEWTON WAS BORN ON DECEMBER TWENTY
FIVE ,ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FORTY TWO IN
WOOLSTHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND, HE IS THE
GREATEST OF ENGLISH ASTRONOMERS; HE ALSO STOOD
OUT AS A GREAT PHYSICIST AND MATHEMATICIAN.
ISAAC NEWTON AS A
CHILD
WHEN NEWTON WAS THREE YEARS OLD,
HIS MOTHER MARRIED, LEAVING ISAAC IN
THE CARE OF HIS GRANDPARENTS. HIS
EARLY EDUCATION WAS IN NEARBY
SCHOOLS.
NEWTON AND THE APPLE
After dinner Newton went to the garden for tea and saw an
apple fall and for the first time thought about gravitation.
reflecting. He thought to himself, why does the apple always
have to fall perpendicular to the ground? Why doesn't it fall
straight up or to the side, and not always towards the center
of the Earth? The reason has to be that the Earth attracts her.
NEWTON'S LAWS
THE LAWS ENUNCIATED BY NEWTON, AND CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT IN
CLASSICAL MECHANICS, ARE THREE: THE LAW OF INERTIA, THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN FORCE AND ACCELERATION, AND THE LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION.
NEWTON ARGUED THAT ALL MOVEMENTS FOLLOW THESE THREE MAIN LAWS,
FORMULATED IN MATHEMATICAL TERMS.

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