456 words short essay on Isaac Newton

                                        The    Great   Scientist

                                                                           

ISAAC  NEWTON

   

                                                                                  The year 1642 was an eventful one in the history of Europe and the world of science. Civil war broke out in England. Galileo, the inventor of telescope, had recently died. And on a cold Christmas day of the same year, in the British town of Wools Thorpe, Sir Isaac Newton was born. His mother’s name was Hannah Newton. Newton lost his father before birth. His mother married again and went to live with her husband Barnabas Smith, who was a well-to-do minister. At the age of twelve, he was sent to Grantham, a school. He took little interest in his books and was almost at the bottom of his class. Then one day there was a great storm. It damaged the crops and houses. Young Isaac completely forgot that he was a farmer. Instead of looking after his farm, he began to measure the force of the wind. He started jumping first with the wind, and then against it. He then measured the length covered with each jump.

       His mother Hannah now began to realize where Isaac’s interest lay, but she was not convinced about sending him back to school. Fortunately for Isaac, his uncle, member of Trinity College, Cambridge realized Isaac’s thirst of learning and sent him back to school. He made all kinds of mechanical gadgets, like the clock, the windmill and the telescope. He made two sundials, which were displayed for years on the walls of his house. Another interesting thing that he did was to fly kites at night and tie a string of lighted paper lanterns to their tails. The peasants around his village looked at the lights in the sky, with fear and amazement. Some of them thought it to be a comet and ran into their houses in terror. He spent long hours looking up at the sky, watching the movements of the stars and the planets. This was one of his favourite pastimes.

       At the age of nineteen, after completing school, Isaac Newton proceeded to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. The main invention of Newton was to invent the Gravity. Early in 1727, Newton fell seriously ill. After a prolonged illness, he died in Kensington, in March that year. He was 85 years old that year. The government and countrymen paid him there last respects by burying him in Westminster Abbey. A magnificent monument was erected in his memory, on the spot where his body was buried.

        The best tribute, however, to the memory of the great scientist is perhaps the words inscribed on a tablet in the room where Newton was born –

“Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night.’’

God said, ‘Let Newton be’, and all was light.     


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