Ever since the man began to evolve into thinking creature the things in the sky mystified him first of all and astronomy became its passion leading to visualization of God power as primordial force behind the creation. Astrology was a by-product and interested the man significantly. Everyone wants to know what the destiny has in […]
Changeability is the ever ongoing process. Newton also made his contribution to the ever change phenomenon of the creation. Before Newton there were several misconceptions about space science or astronomy. Some myths the people blindly clung to as is their wont. Some of the misconceptions were as the following : The planets and their satellites
Premature born baby Isaac Newton was so weak and small that a few people thought it could survive. The baby was too weak to cry or suckle. The prediction was that if the baby survived it would carry some handicap or malignancy. However the mother Henna nursed the baby for three years helping it live
It is an irony that a large section of educated people know little about Isaac Newton. For them he is just another scientist who is nothing more special than a radio inventor or a rocket maker. They don’t realize the importance of Newton’s work. His principles of motion and law of gravity is the very
It is now a universally accepted fact that gravitational force orders all the bodies of the cosmos. Generally density and weight are taken as synonyms but it is incorrect. The weight is infact the velocity of the gravitational force that works on a body according to its mass. Taking the example of the earth we
Now we can see where is the gravitational focal point between the two bodies. For example, we may take two bodies of dissimilar mass, one big and another small. We shall find that the focal point is nearer to the bigger mass and away from the smaller one. The following equation pictures the solar system
The third law of motion said—‘Action and reaction are equal and opposite.’ Newton felt that in solar system the planets do not orbit around the stationary sun as was propounded by Kepler. He upgraded the Kepler principle by saying that the planets and the sun merely rotated around the centre of the gross mass of
The contemporaries of Newton had not considered the questions that a falling apple could throw up as he did. May be, some questions may have popped up in many minds but a very significant thought occured to the mind of Newton that led to his success and he stood tallest amongst the crowd of others.
When there is mention of Newton’s Law of Gravity the mind flashes back a vague picture of a young English man sitting under an apple tree. That tale has become a most popular science legend. An apple falls and the young man’s mind gets the gravitation idea. It may not have actually happened but we
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A genius like Isaac Newton is born once in thousands of years and a special aspect of human race gets set on a new path or new doors of advancement open up. To inform the young generations about this human genius efforts are being made on international level. Isaac Newton died hundreds of years ago.
Few people in the world earn the kind of fame and honours Newton earned besides registering his name in the world of science as indelibly that all the future generation would learn his discoveries as the fundamental lessons of natural science. He had to fight against heavy odds in his earlier life and overcame all
Writing was one of the talents of versatile Isaac Newton. The scientist and writers of that period had to write their work in their own hand. Most of them wrote in bland clerical language bereft of literacy finesse and beauty but Newton was an exception. His writing was thoughtful and well crafted like that of
That special apple tree a fruit of which seeded the idea of gravitational force in the mind of Newton have different claimants. His Grantham school claimed that the tree was bought by it and relocated to the garden of the principal of the school. But the National Trust claimed the Newton’s apple tree stood in
A famous anecdote or story about Isaac Newton is that one day he sat in the botanical garden of Cambridge University under an apple tree contemplating over the mysteries of nature when an apple fell down from the tree to land in front of him or on his head. It surprised Newton. His thinking mind
Before advent of man and after, the world has been governed by the rules of nature which may also be termed as the natural laws and principles. We also see natural laws working all the time around us but we fail to notice them because we do not possess the perceptive mind like that of