Today is the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton; this is why Google have changed their logo for today. We love how the search engine giant has apples falling from their home page logo. Newton was a complex man and known for more than just discovering gravity. Many people always ask what were his inventions and discoveries, with the latter outweighing the former.
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 and died on March 31, 1727. He was not tied to just one science he studied alchemy, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, physics and theology. It was through is constant studying as well as sitting under a tree that he discovered gravity.
Many people would not know that Newton was also an inventor, he did not have a big list to his name, but would he did invent is still used today. Sir Isaac Newton invented the first practical reflecting telescope, what was different to this telescope and the ones used in that period is how he managed to separate unwanted colors.
The curved mirror was already in use, but it was Newton who thought of using it in his telescope first, and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colours that form the visible spectrum. He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound.
In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. He also demonstrated the generalised binomial theorem, developed the so-called “Newton’s method” for approximating the zeroes of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
Newton remains influential to scientists, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of members of Britain’s Royal Society (formerly headed by Newton) asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton or Albert Einstein. Royal Society scientists deemed Newton to have made the greater overall contribution.In 1999, leading physicists from all over the world voted Einstein “greatest physicist ever;” Newton was the runner-up.
Newton was also highly religious, though an unorthodox Christian, writing more on Biblical hermeneutics and occult studies than the natural science for which he is remembered today.
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