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Chasing Rainbows
On December 25, 1642... Isaac Newton was born in a room of this country farmhouse, the picturesque Woolsthorpe Manor just on the outskirt of the small village of Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth in Lincolnshire, England. His father had died two months before his birth. When Isaac Newton was three his mother remarried, and Isaac remained with his grandmother. He was not interested in the family farm, so he was sent to Cambridge University to study.
His scientific experiments with light refraction using prisms, conducted right here in the farmhouse where he was born proved that light itself was composed of a wide spectrum of many colors and changed our perception of the world. This simple realization was to be inspirational and crucial to the work of artists, photographers, astronomers and other scientists and scholars to not only understand color and light but to use it to catalog stars and together with other discoveries gain a more complete knowledge of the workings of the cosmos itself.
Isaac was born just a short time after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. Isaac Newton was very interested in the discoveries of Galileo and others. Isaac thought the universe worked like a machine and that a few simple laws governed it. Like Galileo, he realized that mathematics was the way to explain and prove those laws. Isaac Newton was one of the world’s great scientists because he took his ideas, and the ideas of earlier scientists, and combined them into a unified picture of how the universe works. One of the most eccentric geniuses in history, Sir Isaac Newton has been credited with contributing more to the development of modern science than any other individual in history. He produced a model of the universe which was more consistent, elegant, and intuitive than any proposed before. and discovery that white light is in fact composed of many colors which The mathematical calculus he invented provided rules for dealing with rates of change and many astronomical calculations would have been impossible without it. The laws of gravity that Newton identified applied not only to the Earth, but the entire known universe of the time. Newtonian Physics would remain the most valid means of understanding the universe until Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity two centuries later. Isaac Newton is also often credited with inventing the modern scientific method by refining Galileo's experimental method, thus creating modern scientific methodology. Information taken from various sources including-
An article about Newtons experiment with sunlight and its impact on art and photography:
www.webexhibits.org/colorart/bh.html and to see how many of Newtons theories and works affected later scientists and our understanding of the universe now a great website is found here: sirisaacnewton.info/isaac-newtons-discoveries-and-inventi...
Chasing Rainbows
On December 25, 1642... Isaac Newton was born in a room of this country farmhouse, the picturesque Woolsthorpe Manor just on the outskirt of the small village of Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth in Lincolnshire, England. His father had died two months before his birth. When Isaac Newton was three his mother remarried, and Isaac remained with his grandmother. He was not interested in the family farm, so he was sent to Cambridge University to study.
His scientific experiments with light refraction using prisms, conducted right here in the farmhouse where he was born proved that light itself was composed of a wide spectrum of many colors and changed our perception of the world. This simple realization was to be inspirational and crucial to the work of artists, photographers, astronomers and other scientists and scholars to not only understand color and light but to use it to catalog stars and together with other discoveries gain a more complete knowledge of the workings of the cosmos itself.
Isaac was born just a short time after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. Isaac Newton was very interested in the discoveries of Galileo and others. Isaac thought the universe worked like a machine and that a few simple laws governed it. Like Galileo, he realized that mathematics was the way to explain and prove those laws. Isaac Newton was one of the world’s great scientists because he took his ideas, and the ideas of earlier scientists, and combined them into a unified picture of how the universe works. One of the most eccentric geniuses in history, Sir Isaac Newton has been credited with contributing more to the development of modern science than any other individual in history. He produced a model of the universe which was more consistent, elegant, and intuitive than any proposed before. and discovery that white light is in fact composed of many colors which The mathematical calculus he invented provided rules for dealing with rates of change and many astronomical calculations would have been impossible without it. The laws of gravity that Newton identified applied not only to the Earth, but the entire known universe of the time. Newtonian Physics would remain the most valid means of understanding the universe until Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity two centuries later. Isaac Newton is also often credited with inventing the modern scientific method by refining Galileo's experimental method, thus creating modern scientific methodology. Information taken from various sources including-
An article about Newtons experiment with sunlight and its impact on art and photography:
www.webexhibits.org/colorart/bh.html and to see how many of Newtons theories and works affected later scientists and our understanding of the universe now a great website is found here: sirisaacnewton.info/isaac-newtons-discoveries-and-inventi...