Isaac Newton

The Professor

 

((copyright:  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html, 2000)

 

The first kind of work that Newton did as professor was in optics.  He had found, during the 2 years that the plague had caused the college to shut down, that white light is not one color.  Instead he established that white light consisted of many colors.  This was when he constructed his first reflecting telescope.  While he was teaching at Cambridge he was nominated as a member to the Royal Society due to a donation of a reflecting telescope.  It wasn’t until 1687 when Newton came fourth with the Principia.  The Principia, as it is widely known as now, was an analytical book on the motion of bodies.

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