Unorthodox Look At The Life Of Sir Isaac Newton

I don't see why they didn't just challenge each other to a duel like a lot of people did those days. Perhaps they saw themselves as too civilized to do so, or maybe they were just scared. Who knows? Yet who exactly created that dreaful thing called Calculus is still kinda being debated today by people who actually care. To the dismay of all of my fellow high schoolers, it was indeed Newton that found out about tangents  .
             He made many other contributions to analytic geometry, algebra, and calculus, so I guess every high schooler in the world pretty much hates the guy.
             After working his way up the social and scholastic ladder, Newton's thoughts finally started getting noticed. One example was that he was the only one who challenged Aristotle's theory of light. Newton proved the existence of the visible spectrum. His "Crucial Experiment" even proved that certain colors of light could be filtered out while others were led through. His fellow scientist, Hooke, disproved part of Newton's light theory. These two could be said to have been archenemies. Other scientists belonging to this "gang" wrote Newton harassing letters, causing him to have a nervous breakdown. This coupled with his mother's death caused Newton to go into a "personal shell." Maybe he is where people got the name "Mad Scientist." Or maybe Newton could have best been described as a "Sad Scientist.".
             Newton's strong attractions to mathematics soon drug him out of this depression and into a thicket of new ideas. Eventually he came up with the three laws of motion. Those are another story on their own. He also came up with the idea of centrifugal force ala Earth revolving around the sun. Newton then published The Principia. This book is said to be the greatest scientific book ever published. You go boy. He used forces and objects on Earth to prove that the Earth as well as several other celestial bodies followed the same pattern.