Sir Isaac Newton

            Sir Isaac Newton was a great mathematician and scientist. He was one of the most learned men and one of the greatest thinkers that the world has ever seen.He was born in the year 1642, at a small town in Lincolnshire, in England. He became a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1687. In 1699, he was made master of the Mint in London, and also was elected as the President of Royal Society in 1703. In the year 1705, he was made a Knight by Queen Anne. He died in 1727, at the age of eighty-five.

                     

                   Sir Isaac Newton was best known as the discoverer of the law of gravitation. The story is that what started him thinking on this subject was the fall of an apple in his garden. He had seen apples fall from the trees many times before, and million of people had seen the same. But just at the time, he was studying the movements of stars and trying to find out why they travel in the sky in the way they did. The sight of an apple falling to the ground from a tree set his mind working in the right direction. That led him to explain the movements of the moon round the earth and the other planets around the sun.

        

                   Beside that, he found that the white light the sun is made out of seven colors and he also made so many great discoveries. Though he was such a great man, he was very simple and humble, and a little before his death, he said “I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me”. He was humble because, though he knew so much, his great learning showed him how much there was to be known.