Sir Isaac Newton

Born on Christmas Day, 1642 in a small Lincolnshire Manor House at Woolsthorpe. A frail tiny baby with a head that needed extra support for many months. Yet within that tiny head a genius mind was to develop - a mind brimming with thoughts and ideas to influence the world for centuries. One of the greatest minds the world has ever known.

The laws of motion, universal gravitation, the reflecting telescope and calculus are just some of Newtons's contributions and discoveries.

A lonely genius, friendly with most but who rarely spoke in company and who preferred his own company, he cherished time alone in quiet thought and experimenting, he often forgot appointments,forgot to get dressed and alot of practical day to day things we all take for granted seemed to float over his head. He had far greater things to contemplate and to work out.

He was an absent minded Professor,often forgetting or being late to meet with friends, an experimenter, a creator, a shy eccentric.A genius, a unique and special man, who contributed so much to his own time, and to future generations. Rarely had one man done so with such modesty.

In 1666 Newton began to examine light on colours, he bought himself a prism to support his studies. He soon learned the beam of sunlight he sent through the prism was bent, or refracted. It did not emerge as white light but as beams made up of seven colours of the spectrum. The prism findings led him on to experiment with telescopes based on his discovery, the reflection principle, building his own in 1668.The second one he made in 1671 brought him fame and recognition all over Europe. The most professional and also the amateur telescopes in use today are reflecting telescopes, they also have the eyepiece on the side where Newton first placed his in 1668.

Newton reached many conclusions that are widely used today in many areas. Interestingly, recently great scientific minds globally and finally all agree on many of the conclusions that Newton had reached many years prior and in the mid seventeenth century!

He died in his eighty fifth year in his sleep in 1727.

A humble, modest genius with incredible insights.

He had written these words to a friend shortly before his death ....

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me".

A remarkable man.