ISAAC NEWTON PRESENTATION

How can we link Isaac Newton and the critical thinking ?

Isaac newton and Critical thinking

Presentation

Table of contents

Isaac newton and the historical context

How Sir Isaac Newton participate to the critical way of thinking ?

Conclusion

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Isaac Newton and the historical context

Who was Isaac Newton ? and Which was the historical context he faced ?

Isaac newton

Born the 25 December 1642 and died the 20 March 1727

He was an English Mathematician, physician, philosopher, alchemist, astronomer and theologian,

Influenced by Galileo, Nikolas Kopernic, Kepler,...

Discovered the laws of Universal Gravitation and the laws of motion.

The debuts of critical thinking

How Isaac Newton helped to develop the critical way of thinking ?

Which historical context did Newton face ?

The Glorious revolution of 1688 allowed many improvements in Britain :

Many scientific discoveries

Creation of a parliament

London expansion

How did he help create critical thinking?

he based his work on other scientists' advices ; Copernicius, Galileo,...

his laws are also a question of time : he made many reserches and made a lot of calculations

don't focus his work about beliefs and common knowledge, or directly with his personal advice, he only uses scientific proven expertises.

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Quote of the day

Take for granted only what is proven

Isaac Newton

conclusion

All the good things have an end.

Conclusion

So isaac newton , Scientist, developped his theory using all the clues he had, with all the other scientists' advices and his own personal rserches; Thanks to him, it was recognized that egocentric views of world must be adandonned, in favour of gathered evidence and resonning

Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation’

- Newton

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