_近代科学之父牛顿英语介绍.ppt

Unknown things about Newton 1 Newton nearly died when he was born. We know that Newton is a premature baby. Due to the premature, Newton was very weak and skinny. His mother even thought he cant live for a long time. He was so small that even can put into a cup. 2 Newton almost became a farmer . Newton was born in a farming family. When he was 17 years old, her mother insisted on Newton comes home from school to do farm work. Thank goodness, Newton was not good at farm work. Not a long , under Newtons uncle successful persuasion, his mother finally agreed to let Newton go to Cambridge College. 3 Newton was an alchemist . Newton had written plenty of books about gold metallurgy. And he kept it as a secret， because of making gold is a felony at that time. 近代科学之父 —牛顿 Isaac Newton (1642~1727) What’s the most famous story about Newton? Newton himself often told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. He felt very strange that why the apple was from the top down rather than from bottom to up? He took it home study,and later discovered that the earth has gravity that can make objects drop to ground. Subsequently,appeared “Newton physical gravity” What made Newton sit under the apple tree and wonder about gravitation ? Isaac Newton was born to an English family on Christmas day, 1642, the year of Galileo’s death. Newton’s father died before he was born, and when Isaac was 3 years old, his mother remarried and moved away, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother. Perhaps it was this early isolation that fostered Newton’s introspective [??ntr???spekt?v]内省的personality and began to develop his capacity [k??p?siti]才能 for intense [in?tens]热情 concentration. Newton’s quiet make him like thinking. At the age of five, Newton was sent to the public school. He worked hard on his work but didn’t get great grades, ranking in poor st