Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton could easily be considered one of the greatest minds in history. He was an all around genius. He was a mathematician, a natural philosopher, an inventor, and an English physicist. Some of the phenomenal things he did include studying how light reacts to reflection, formulating laws of universal gravitation and motion, and built the first ever reflecting telescope. In 1642 Isaac Newton was born into a very poor farming family inWoolsthorpe, England. When he was very young, his grandma took over and raised him. During this time, he and his grandma lived with a...
1690s, possibly in response to the intellectual exertion of writing the Principia, Newton suffered a period of depression. He started his work on the moon's motions. A few years later Newton published another great book called Opticks explained the theory of light and color as well as some of his mathematic ways.

In 1725 Newton moved from London to Kensington for health reasons. Two years later Newton died from previous health issues. Newton really changed the ways of math back then. If it weren't for him, we properly wouldn't have such a high math level as we do today.