Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist. He was considered one of the greatest scientists in history. Newton was probably best known for his discovery that the force called gravity affects all objects in space and on earth. He was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge and became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the university. Newton has had achievements in three areas of science.
To begin with, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. In 1666, he generalized the methods used to draw tangents to curve and to calculate the area swept by cur…