Childhood
When was Isaac Newton born?
December 25th, 1642
Where did Isaac Newton first go to school?
King's School at Grantham
What is the name of the book that Isaac Newton wrote?
The Principia
What did Newton discover in mathematics?
Method of fluxions
Who helped provide a conceptual link between central attraction and a force falling off with the square of distance?
Robert Hooke
Where was Isaac Newton born?
Lincolnshire, England
Where did Isaac Newton go to college?
Trinity College, Cambridge
What year did Isaac Newton write his book?
1687
What is Newton's most famous experiment?
experimentum crucis
Which famous philosopher did Isaac Newton become acquainted with?
John Locke
What was Isaac Newton's mother's name?
Hanna
What year did Isaac Newton go to Cambridge?
1661
What society was Isaac Newton elected President?
The Royal Society
What did his most famous experiment entail?
It demonstrated his theory of the composition of light
Who published papers on calculus almost 20 years after Newton's discoveries?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Why was Isaac Newton taken out of school?
To become a farmer
Who examined Newton's understanding of Euclid?
Isaac Barrow
What was his second major book called?
Opticks
Describe the meaning behind "Newton's rings."
light passing through a convex lens pressed against a flat glass plate produces concentric colored rings
Who guided Newton to publish Principia
Edmund Halley
Isaac Newton was born premature.
True or False?
True
What year did Newton graduate from Cambridge?
1665
What was Newton's third book called?
System of the World
What is Newton's third book about?
The three laws of motion
Who hypothesized the three laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler