Sir Isaac Newton-the Really Religious Guy Who Invented Much of Science and Math

…Ok, Sir Isaac Newton didn’t singlehandedly invent Science and Math, but he pretty much invented Classical Physics, and the British Royal Society that began arbitrating what legitimately WAS science, thereby ushering in the Scientific Revolution, which led to the Age of Enlightenment. All this for a man obsessed with Religion and God’s perfect Universe…could Newton have foreseen that Science and Religion would become so opposed?

Sir Isaac Newton-He was brilliant, intense, and his religious beliefs convinced him that God had created a perfect Universe, whose perfect mechanisms he was intent on discovering

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) is of course a giant among historic scientific geniuses. He was a rather strange guy, seeming to fit the Asperger Syndrome profile (often withdrawing into his own world), yet later he formed many attachments with which to promote his work. He was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge at age 19, and began an obsessive study of planetary motion and light, thinking that our world obeyed God’s perfection.

Newton’s Three Laws of Motion, and Planetary Motion: Newton’s Three Laws of Motion state: 1) Every object moves in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force 2) The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force exerted and inversely proportional to the object’s mass 3) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The 1st law clarified the definition of force, which had been misunderstood by…