![]() He also captured and expanded his ideas by creating sketches, developing drawings and making extensive notes. Through dedication, single-mindedness and focus he pursued a life of self-discovery and exploration that helped uncover many inventions and scientific laws.įond of constructing gadgets and devices Newton had a hands-on and practical side often building and toying with devices, and inventing models both mechanical and otherwise. Newton was largely self-taught and self-educated. I endeavoured to keep it simple so that the qualities may carry over to any field of interest. I have identified four key areas: exploration, experiment, approach and enquiries. ![]() I have drawn inspiration for the mind map from the book “Newton’s Notebook”, full details of which appear below should you wish to discover more about Sir Isaac Newton. 10.This mind map explores some of the qualities of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) whose discoveries included the invention of the reflecting telescope, calculus, the laws of motion, the theory of universal gravitation and an explanation of colour and the rainbow. He was a student of theology, as well, and he applied Newtonian principles to the Bible to figure this out. What he did was tell all the people who were absolutely freaking out about the end of the world that it was absolutely not happening until 2060, at the very earliest. No, he didn’t invent the concept, though he did come up with calculus, so maybe he did come close. But the discovery of this law is the root of really cool things like space exploration, so it’s a big deal. Insert lame ‘cool’ and ‘chilling’ pun here. He also figured out how equinoxes and tides work, making wiccans around the world giddy with delight or despair, depending on their point of view. From there, he figured out how gravity applies not just to apples, but to the entire world, and that led to discovery of many of the foundations of modern astronomy. He started the move to the gold standard. But Newton, when he was appointed, decided to tackle the problem of counterfeit coins, which was becoming a huge hindrance to the Crown, and worked day and night to make counterfeit-proof coins. Warden at the Royal Mint was one of those titles that largely meant that you should smile and wave. Newton struck gold with the idea of building a telescope using reflecting mirrors, instead of just refraction, greatly improving the quality of telescopes. Thank Newton for cover art of Dark Side of the Moon via 5. If you want this to sound catchier, think of it this way: he ruined the mystique of rainbows and told people there was no pot of gold at the end of one, because his “Opticks” talks about light, refraction and colours. But without his failed attempt to find the secret of alchemy – turning lead into gold, or changing the very substance of things to turn them into something else – we possibly would not have the first Harry Potter book, so we’re giving him this one anyway. Silly, but he was thinking of calculus and apples. According to the story, he had a cat with kittens, and he cut one big hole in a door for the cat, a smaller one for kittens. Pet Doorĭidn’t see this one coming, did you? Well, this could very well be a factoid rather than a fact: something that has become accepted to be true even if it’s not because pop culture constantly references it as true. He did this while on hiatus from university, by the way. You can thank Newton for all those endless calculus tests you had to sit through, because he put down on paper the basics of differentiation and integration that made you want to tear your hair out in math class. It wasn’t just physics headaches that he gave us non-scientifically inclined. ![]() Pic viaīut still, here are ten lesser known inventions of Isaac Newton. He did, however, have a really cool personal coat of arms. That may or may not be true – there are suggestions that somebody else had been working on the idea of gravity already, and the man came up with a funny anecdote to make people believe he had got on to it first.īut three laws of motion that we were forced to memorise in school and gravity aren’t all he figured out, though we do question the veracity of his claims after we found out that the apple story might be fake. ![]() We all know of Isaac Newton as the dude on whose head an apple fell, and so he wondered about gravity. ![]()
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