Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists of all time, laying the foundation of physics and mathematics. As much as the books he wrote and the theories he developed, the fact that he had never been married was one of the most remarkable details of his life.
Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, England. He got his name from his father, a rich farmer who died three months before his birth. When Newton was only 4, his mother married the man of the religion, and left him with his grandmother. Because of this traumatic situation, Newton began to hate his family and especially his stepfather. He lived at William's house, a pharmacist from age 12 to age 17, where he became fascinated by both alchemy and the pharmacist's stepdaughter, Miss Storey.
When her mother's husband died seven years later, she returned with a very large inheritance. At 12, he started training at King's School in Grantham and finished in 1661. One time his mother picked him up from school to make him a farmer, but Newton wasn't interested in farm work. Unlike his mother, Newton constantly studied the sky and stars, read books and took various notes. Finally, he convinced his mother to go to school and get ready for college and went back to school.
Why didn't Newton ever get married?
When Newton was 19, he was engaged to Miss Storey, the stepdaughter of William, the pharmacist. But because of Newton's intense lessons, their relationship is over. Newton has never been married in his life, and it hasn't been known if he has any other relationship. It was known that Newton always remembered his relationship with Storey.
Newton's works
Newton entered Trinity College in Cambridge in 1661. Newton took of algebra, geometry and trigonometry here for three years. He learned Latin and ancient Greek languages. He also met Galileo and Kepler's works at this time and was very impressed. Newton also studied Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and Boyle's philosophical work.
Trinity College in Cambridge was closed due to the plague that began in London in August 1665, and Newton stayed at his farm in Woolsthorpe, 1667, until March. These two years he spent on the farm were very efficient, and in this period he began to think about gravity. He also laid the foundation for differential and integral calculations in his work on the farm. In the past, the field, the length of the spring, the tangent discovery, and the methods used in the past, combined with the differential calculation. In a dark room on the farm, he put sunlight into a prism, creating a spectrum of light, and he realized that white light was not a single unit.
In 1667, Newton returned to Cambridge when the university reopened and two years later became a professor of mathematics. He stayed in Cambridge for about 30 years. In these years, Principia, his greatest work, prepared and completed his book. As a result of his experiments on the light his farm, he realized that the lens telescopes were creating flaws, and he developed a reflective telescope on top of that. In 1668, this telescope attracted the attention of the scientific world and became a member of the Royal Society in 1672.
Isaac Newton published the book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (mathematical Principles of Natural philosophy) in Latin, one of the most important scientific works in the history of the world. In the book, he made the evidence with geometry, explained the universal law of gravity. He also explained that the objects were attracted to each other in the right way with their mass, and in the opposite proportion to their distance.
The book is divided into three main chapters by Newton. In chapter one, he praised Galileo's experiments. Kepler has proven his laws mathematically. In this chapter, Newton explained the laws of movement, called his name. In the second part, he examined the movements in the fluid and made recommendations for the best ship design. In this section, the mathematical analysis of wave movements has attracted attention.
In 1696, Newton was offered the directorate of the Royal Mint. Newton accepted and settled in London. He took his job very seriously and loved his life in London. He didn't want to be too interested in academic studies anymore. He was appointed head of the Royal Society in 1703 and remained on this mission until his death. in 1705, he won the knighthood title. Newton died on March 31, 1727 and was buried at the Westminister Monastery.
Scientific studies
- Maths
- The calculus discussion with Leibniz
- Mechanical
- Gravity
- Newton mechanic
- Optical
Major works
- Method
- De Motu Corporum in Gyrum (1684)
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Opticks (1704)
- Arithmetica Universalis (1707)
- The System of the World, Optical Lectures, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms,(Amended) and De mundi systemate (published posthumously in 1728)
- Observations Prophecies Of Daniel and Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
- An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture(1754)