Saturday 19 September 2015

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SIR ISAAC NEWTON...

One genius dies, another one is born. Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the same year that Galileo Galilei died.

When he was 14, the second husband of her mother died. She took Newton out of school and returned to Woolsthorpe and tried to make him a farmer.

He was also a politician. Newton served as a Member of Parliament representing Cambridge on two separate occasions. However, like farming, he had no interest in this.

He was also an inventor. Newton invented the first reflecting telescope which he used in his modern study of optics.

Newton is not just a scientist as we all know. He was also a mathematician, and a natural philosopher. Newton is one of the top mathematicians of his day.

Newton’s estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060
He was an alchemist. Probably the weirdest fact about Newton is that he was a firm believer in alchemy. One of his greatest ambitions was to find the philosopher’s stone – the secret to turning common metals into gold.

He died on March 20, 1727 at the age of 84. Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, the first scientist to be so honored.

The Great Albert Einstein kept A picture of the great Newton was always on his study wall alongside ones of Michel Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell.

The famous Apple story is a myth.
That was never happened.

Newton has the most valuable tooth. One of his teeth was sold in 1816 at auction for approx $3,600. In today’s terms that’s about $35,000, prompting Guinness World Records to declare it the most valuable tooth in the world.