Newton’s Dark Secrets
1. Isaac Newton was born in rural England in 1642. Who died that same year?
2. What belief did Galileo risk his freedom over?
3. What did Newton do as a boy?
4. What wish did Newton confess about his mother and stepfather?
5. What kind of student was Newton at Cambridge University?
6. What did Rene Descartes think the Universe was like?
7. What closed the University and sent Newton back home?
8. What is the famous apple story?
9. What force did Newton propose pulled both apples and the Moon to Earth?
10. What did Galileo discover about falling object?
11. How did Newton find the precise velocity of a falling apple?
12. What branch of mathematics did Newton invent?
13. What is calculus used for?
14. What did Newton use to investigate the nature of light?
15. What did Newton discover about sunlight?
16. What did Newton become when he returned to Cambridge?
17. How did Newton improve the telescope?
18. Newton’s telescope earns him a place in what society?
19. What is alchemy?
20. What was the goal of alchemy?
21. Who was Newton’s life long nemesis?
22. Why was alchemy banned in England?
23. Alchemy was really the predecessor of what modern science?
24. What famous astronomer visited Newton with a question?
25. How did Newton relate the inverse square law to the orbits of the planets?
26. What was Newton’s masterpiece called?
27. How did Newton disagree with Galileo about motion on Earth and in space above?
28. What did Newton present first in the Principia?
29. How are Newton’s three laws used today?
30. What was Newton’s famous thought experiment involving projectile motion?
31. What did Newton proclaim about gravity?
32. Why did many object to Newton’s law of universal gravitational attraction?
33. What Job did Newton take in London?
34. What was Newton’s second great masterpiece?
35. How often do people like Newton come into the world?