Isaac Newton Facts for Kids

Newton, Sir Isaac was born in England and was a renowned mathematician, a highly influential physicist, alchemist, natural philosopher, theologian and an astronomer. The honor of holding so many degrees and publishing few of the most prestigious books in the history of science, is indeed an amazing achievement of his and his followers path. His famous publication which has earned an undying fame till date is named as, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, usually called Principia. This book revolves around the foundations and theory of classical mechanics. The man who explained the universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, yet prevails for the next three centuries, according to the scientific viewpoint of the physical universe. There were a lot of other accomplishments of Newton, like, he was the first to build a reflecting telescope, the first to study the speed of sound, to observe colors through a prism that formed a visible spectrum, etc. I believe, the fête list of Sir Isaac Newton facts is a never-ending one, perhaps, we can catch up with some facts for kids, some trivia and related information of this very famous scientist.

Facts on Isaac Newton for Kids

• Before the Gregorian calendar was adopted by the English, it was recorded that, Isaac Newton was born on Christmas, i.e 25th December 1642. It was the same year the scientist, Galileo Galilee died.
• Recent dates tell the birth date of Sir Isaac Newton as 4th of January 1643 and he died on 31st March 1727. He was a premature baby and it was not expected that he would survive.
• His birthplace is in the county of Lincolnshire, a small village named, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, England.
• Newton was just 26, when he became a professor of math.
• Isaac Newton was named after his father, who died three months before Newton was born. His father could barely write his own name.
• Isaac Newton liked to draw. The walls and ceilings of his own room used to be filled with colors.
• Isaac was known to be the worst kid in his class, until he was kicked by a bully at school. Newton challenged that bully for a fight. He did not bother of his own safety and eventually won the fight. But guess, that wasn't all. He later decided to be, better than all the bullies at school.
• Sir Isaac Newton's biography says that, for sometime he was known to be a farmer. He helped his mother on the farm, but ultimately, was entitled as the world's worst farmer.
• Newton was a very religious man, a devout Christian and he believed that God was indeed invisible, but he did influence every part of human life.
• It was disputed by the Snobelen, that Newton followed a secret religion and held the Arian belief of the Holy Trinity, rather than the Roman Catholics, Protestants and Anglicans.
• He was elected as one of the members of parliament which lasted for just a year. It was known that he was knighted by Queen Anne in Cambridge on April 16, 1705, which actually earned him the title 'Sir', due to his political activities.
• Also, as a politician, Newton just spoke one sentence during most of the lengthy proceedings, "He asked a nearby person to close an open window."
• The first flight to Moon was possible, only because of Newton's profound discoveries about the movement of planets and the speed of light.
• Alchemy is a primitive practice that was banned in the year 1404, in England. Isaac practiced Alchemy.
• He achieved the title of Warden of the Royal Mint in the year 1696.
• It was seen that, a majority of discoveries were made by Newton in his early to mid-twenties, but weren't published until many years later. Many arguments resulted because of this action.
• Newton was extremely passionate about the Bible. He penned down more things about religion than math and science.
• He was a man, who never dated anyone, so eventually never married and obviously never had kids.
• From his apple falling due to gravity theory, he concluded that, "Whatever goes up, must come down!"
• Newton stated his first law of motion as, "An object is in motion wants to stay in motion, and an object at rest wants to stay in rest."
• He also came up with the formula for Pi and invented calculus and also, the general binomial theorem in mathematics.

There is so much this scientist had achieved, that merely jotting down his work of life in a few words, is going to be really otiose. So let's see some more inevitable facts about Isaac Newton.

Facts about Newton's Life
Here are Sir Isaac Newton facts, his inventions and discoveries.

• The books on Newton's laws of motion (Principia) and gravitation theory were published between 1686 and 1687.
• The story heard is that, Isaac was walking in his garden at Woolsthorpe, when he noticed an apple fall from a tree. That made him formulate the theory of universal gravitation. But the fact said by Newton was, he was inside his house looking through the window, when he saw the apple fall.
• In the year 1687, Newton published the book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
• The gravitational laws explain that there is gravitational attraction between objects or bodies with mass. For instance: the earth and the moon.
• Also, the principles of conservation are related to the angular momentum and momentum, empirical law of cooling, refraction of light, etc.
• In the year 1665, Isaac Newton began working on the conceptual theory using his prism experiment, that white light is a collection of several colors. Thus, this led him to publish a book called Opticks (Optics) in 1704, where he stated all his observations on the discovery of spectrum light.
• In the year 1668, Newton invented his first reflective telescope, which was composed of a primary concave shaped mirror and a flat-diagonal shaped secondary mirror.
• One of Sir Isaac Newton Quotes includes: "Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth."

The information set before you in this article gives us an indication that, this man was really intelligent, generous, dedicated and undoubtedly; genius. The magnanimity of his life and work is valued till date and will be for years more.