Sir Issac Newton

25-12-1643 : Birth at Woolsthorpe, England.26-12-1646 : Mother Henna remarried abandoning Isaac Newton to grandmother’s care.1654-58 : Step father died. Henna returns to Isaac with three step-siblings. Education in village and King’s School, Grantham.1658-61 : Fell in love. Went to Cambridge for higher studies. Love failed.1661-1665 : Worked in mess to pay for his fee […]

END TIME AND DEMISEIsaac Newton spent his last years in studying. He was gravitating towards spiritualism and religion. The most of the work of Newton of those years pertained to religion and his faith in God had deepened. He wanted to know more about mysteries of the spiritualism. He had become very anxious and restless

After the death of Isaac Newton his unpublished works were brought out by the government as he had now become a national icon who had set England on the top of the world of science. In the process some interesting facts about Newton’s nature of research came out. In the scientific innings his biggest interest

When did science catch the imagination of Newton? In one of his interviews Isaac Newton is reported to have said: ‘In the summer of 1663 I felt that I must work in the field of science. I was a young student in the Trinity College of Cambridge University. I bought a book on astrology in

Newton’s personal library yielded 1752 identifiable subjects or titles. Out of them 477 were on religion or spiritualism, 169 on chemistry, 126 on mathematics, 53 on physics, 33 on astronomy and 4 indeed were related to astrology.The discovery of four astrological books pointed out that he may have at some time some interest in the

Ever since the man began to evolve into thinking creature the things in the sky mystified him first of all and astronomy became its passion leading to visualization of God power as primordial force behind the creation. Astrology was a by-product and interested the man significantly. Everyone wants to know what the destiny has in

Changeability is the ever ongoing process. Newton also made his contribution to the ever change phenomenon of the creation. Before Newton there were several misconceptions about space science or astronomy. Some myths the people blindly clung to as is their wont. Some of the misconceptions were as the following : The planets and their satellites

Premature born baby Isaac Newton was so weak and small that a few people thought it could survive. The baby was too weak to cry or suckle. The prediction was that if the baby survived it would carry some handicap or malignancy. However the mother Henna nursed the baby for three years helping it live

It is an irony that a large section of educated people know little about Isaac Newton. For them he is just another scientist who is nothing more special than a radio inventor or a rocket maker. They don’t realize the importance of Newton’s work. His principles of motion and law of gravity is the very

It is now a universally accepted fact that gravitational force orders all the bodies of the cosmos. Generally density and weight are taken as synonyms but it is incorrect. The weight is infact the velocity of the gravitational force that works on a body according to its mass. Taking the example of the earth we

Now we can see where is the gravitational focal point between the two bodies. For example, we may take two bodies of dissimilar mass, one big and another small. We shall find that the focal point is nearer to the bigger mass and away from the smaller one. The following equation pictures the solar system

The third law of motion said—‘Action and reaction are equal and opposite.’ Newton felt that in solar system the planets do not orbit around the stationary sun as was propounded by Kepler. He upgraded the Kepler principle by saying that the planets and the sun merely rotated around the centre of the gross mass of

The contemporaries of Newton had not considered the questions that a falling apple could throw up as he did. May be, some questions may have popped up in many minds but a very significant thought occured to the mind of Newton that led to his success and he stood tallest amongst the crowd of others.

When there is mention of Newton’s Law of Gravity the mind flashes back a vague picture of a young English man sitting under an apple tree. That tale has become a most popular science legend. An apple falls and the young man’s mind gets the gravitation idea. It may not have actually happened but we

A genius like Isaac Newton is born once in thousands of years and a special aspect of human race gets set on a new path or new doors of advancement open up. To inform the young generations about this human genius efforts are being made on international level. Isaac Newton died hundreds of years ago.