Jacob's presentation for CC:

Issac Newton Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time. In his day he was known as a natural philosopher. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas 1642, which happened to be the same year Galileo died. He was born in England near a small village named Grantham 22 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. His father died before he was born. He and his new stepfather did not get along so Newton was raised by his grandmother as a young boy. He went to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in London and eventually because a professor there. He went back home to escape the black plague which was spreading through London. His mother wanted him to be a farmer but he spent most of his time observing nature and trying to understand how the world works. Newton was one of the first scientist to use the scientific method. When he was 23 he discovered the law of gravity. He wrote many books about science. One of them, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, first published in 1687, is often called the greatest scientific book ever written. It explains Newton's law of gravity, describes how the planets move, and introduces Newton's laws of motion. Newton's first law of motion states an object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain moving in a strait line at a constant speed until acted on by an outside force. His second law of motion is force equals mass times acceleration. His third law of motion famously says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thanks in large part to Isaac Newton's work, we entered a new era called the Age of Reason.