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Sir Issac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician who was born into a poor farming family. Luckily fo us Newton
was not a good farmer, so he was sent to Cambridge to study to become a preacher. At Cambridge , Newton studied mathematics,
being especially influenced by Euclid, Baconian, and Cartesian. Newton was forced to leave Cambridge because it was closed
because of the plague. Eventhough this was the worest of times Newton discovered most of ahis significant discoveries but
never went on to publish them.
Later in 1675 Newton suffered a mental breakdown and was still recovering through 1679. In response to a letter from
Hooke, Newton suggested that a particle, if released, would spiral in the center of the Earth. After receiving the letter
from Newton Hooke wrote back, claiming that the path would not be an spiral, but an ellipse. Newton who hated being outdone,
proceed to work out the mathematics of orbits, but again he did not publish his discoveries.
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