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| Sir Isaac newton (1643-1727) |
Sir Isaac newton was the greatest scientist of the century.
He was an English citizen. His father was a farmer who died before Newton
born.
In school, Newton’s friends often mocked him as stupid, taciturn,
different,
dreamed person, and easily got offended. But then, he studied hard and
succeeded in becoming the champion of the class. Since that moment,
his friends never dared to disturb him again.
Sir Isaac Newton liked reading, thinking much,
conducting many experiments, and writing.
Newton’s most popular and
qualified book in the world was Principia.
In this book, Newton explained his three laws related to the movement of
body.
Beside as a physicist, Newton was a mathematician, astronomer,
philosopher, writer, and professor as well. He invented the gravitational
law,
motion law, calculus, reflecting telescope, and spectrum.
His work Philosophiæ
Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
published in 1687 is considered as the most
influential books in the history of science.
The book Philosophiæ Naturalis
Principia Mathematica,
which means in Latin "mathematical principles of
natural philosophy"
is a book by Isaac Newton. It was published by on July
5, 1687.
This book laid the foundations of classical mechanics.
In this work,
Newton described the law of gravitation and the three
laws of motion which
dominated the scientific view of the
universe for three centuries. Newton was
able to show that
the motion of objects on Earth and other space governed by a
set of
natural laws are the same. He proved it by demonstrating the
consistency
between Kepler's laws of planetary motion with the theory of gravity.
His work
was finally remove doubt scientists will heliocentrism
and advancing the
scientific revolution.
In the field of mechanics,
Newton sparked the principle of conservation
of momentum and angular momentum.
In the field of optics,
he managed to build the first reflecting telescope and
developed
a theory of color based on the observation that a glass prism will
split white light into other colors.
He also formulated the law of cooling and
studied the speed of sound.
In mathematics also, along
with the work of Gottfried Leibniz are done separately,
Newton developed
differential calculus and integral calculus.
He also managed to describe the
binomial theory, developed "Newton's method"
to approach the zero
value of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
Even now, Newton is still
very influential among scientists.
A 2005 survey which questioned the
scientists and the general public at
the Royal Society of who is to make
greater contributions in science,
whether Newton or Albert Einstein, showed
that Newton
considered to provide a greater contribution.