Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities

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Up there it was perfect Down here things were messy Never were Earth and the heavens to work as One But as Isaac Newton grew to manhood he dared to question Aristotle's worldview Newton studied the writings of Greek Islamic and medieval thinkers He pondered the celestial patterns described by Renaissance astronomers such as Nicolaus Coperni cus Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei He asked why things like apples always fall down when they fall out of trees Then Isaac Newton became the first person to pull this thinking into one elegant pattern and make sense of it all Isaac Newton was a natural philosopher what we generally call a scientist or physicist As Newton studied the system of the world his physics became the crown jewel of the Scientific Revolution During this era of change from about 1500 to 1700 people learned to make observations do experiments and develop a formal method to test why things are the way they are Isaac Newton detected a set of laws simple but elegant that linked up there with down here Of that discovery was born one of the most influential books of all time Newton's Principia Mathematical or the Mathematical Principles of the Natural Philosophy Yes Isaac Newton was curious and a curiosity to