My Favorite Scientist

By Minal sharma & Manisha Kothari,(IX)th, Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya

Isaac Newton was born in wools Thorpe near Grantham, England. He is generally regarded as the most original and influential theorist in the history of science. He was born in a poor farming family. But he was not good in farming. He was sent to study at Cambridge university in 1661. In 1665 a plague broke out in Cambridge and so newton took a year off. It was during this year that the incident of the apple falling on him is said to have occurred. This incident prompted newton to explore the possibility of connecting gravity with the force that kept the moon in its orbit. This led him to moon in its orbit. This led him to the universal law of gravitation it is remarkable that many great scientists before him knew of gravity but failed to realize it.
Newton formulated the well known laws of motion. He worked on theories of light and color. He designed an astronomical observation Newton was also a great mathematician. He invented a new branch of math mastics, called calculus. He used it to that for objects outside a sphere of uniform density; the sphere behaves as if the whole of its mass in concentrated at its centre. Newton transformed the structure of Physical Science with his three laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation. as the keystone of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth centaury, newton’s work combined the contributions of Copernicus, kepler, cralileo, and others into a new powerful synthesis. It is remarkable that though the gravitational theory could not be verified at that time, there was hardly any doubt about its correctness’. This is because Newton based his theory on sound scientific reasoning and backed it with mathematics. This made the theory simple and elegant. These equalities are now recognized as essential requirements of a good scientific theory.