Newton’s Dark Secret. (Lumia Zaman)

This is a very interesting documentary. Most of the people know that Newton is a genious who created calculus and discovered gravity with his famous apple theory. At the begining the documentary shows what Newton did at his 20’s and they were amazed by his talent.

The interesting  fact that the documentary brings out that Newton practised alchomy secretly. He was a minister of the church but later he was excused. He did not beleive in religion but he believed that there is an superior beaing who is controling the earth with this bewildering system.

Newton finding out the day when Jesus will come back, was a bit surprising. As most of the people about Newton is that he is just a genious who invented so many things that turned around the human life and their view towards world and put science into it. But the documentary shows some other sides of Newton which none of us probably would’ve guessed ever.

Newton’s Dark Secrets (Simone G.)

Newton’s documentary was the most interesting by far because I was actually familiar with what was being discussed. We leanred about the life of Newton and how he really was kind of what we would call a “nerd.”However, he was very smart, and he had created the model of the telescope that many researchers use today. He also figured out the concept of gravity and that the Earth and Sun are held together by it. He used the prism technique, learning that the “pure” light really is a combination of all colors. We were also introduced to alchemy and how it had caused problems back in his days because so many were trying to turn metal into gold. This set us up for “The Alchemist” in Books of Rice and Salt which is partially about the trial and error of alchemy.

Newtons Dark Secrets

Newtons Dark Secrets really weren’t really about any dark secrets with the exception of him being an alchemist and his religious views. His religious views didn’t seem to play that big of a role in his life or have much of an effect on him. His alchemy even though “it may have discredited him as a scientist” didn’t seem to be that big of a deal and even though he didn’t publish anything on the subject he did write a lot about it. Also I’ve read that at the time there wasn’t much of a distinction between science and alchemy. I did like the video much better than previous ones we have watched though.

Newton’s Dark Secrets

The documentary Newton’s Dark Secrets, talks about the life and discoveries of Isaac Newton. When Newton was younger, he was described as a troubled boy who was very often alone and without many friends. With all of this alone time to think, it is not hard to understand how he discovered such invaluable things such as gravity or the creation of the telescope. Even in college Newton was mostly kept to himself. He was very loyal to his studies and was always interested in learning more. After having watched the movie, I was surprised to learn about the many other subjects that Sir Isaac Newton dabbled in such as Alchemy. I thought this movie was beneficial to see especially when applying it to the opinion paper assignment. I am glad to have learned more about such an important person to our history. 

Response to Newton’s Dark Secrets

The documentary is the wonderful interpretation of the Newton’s early life and how he achieved the Success. He was shown in the movie as a very reserved person, doing everything in the dark secret and keeping his inventions to himself. He actually wrote all the fundamental ideas of Calculus just before his death. Calculus was crucial to mathematics in order to compete with the new era and to analyze the problems of advanced technologies with theoretical and practical data. Newton also invented the law for gravity, the telescope, and also discovered alchemy. It was interesting to see that how the religious ideas influenced his inventions in science and technology. He invented the ideas of modern world. It has also been mentioned in the movie that he was a very secret person and used to sit in his room for hours and hours. The video definitely reveals some of the main ideas of the hero of science, Sir Issac Newton.  

Newton’s Dark Secrets

In Newton’s Dark secrets documentary we learned about Sir Isaac Newton and his discoveries. He was born in the 17 century. He lived through some rough times in the world such as war and killing of kings and many other terrifying times. Both of his parents died leaving him with his grandparents. From a young child he was very interested in nature, making boats and just scientific things. He attended Cambridge University where he farther his studies in science and alchemy. He became an alchemist  and knew many recipes. He would spent days in his science room, trying new experiments and other things. He wouldn’t give up until he knew it was either right or wrong. He made new scientific ideas.

The story that most of us know about Newton and the story about the apple that feel from the tree and from there on he was able to come up with new ideas. He concluded that the same force holding the apple to the tree is the same force holding the planets in place. He called it gravity. After that he wanted to come up with a formula calculating the average speed of the falling apple. Many of the formulas we still use today were made by Newton. He came up with calculus, which is a quantitative understanding of things changing.

I feel that Sir Isaac Newton was a great person, that knew what he was doing. Also he has gave us so many new inventions and technologies because we still use the telescope he created today.

NewTon’s Dark Secrets

Watching the movie/documentary Newton’s Dark secrets helped me to learn a lot more information about Issac newton that i knew from before. In school before, we were mainly taught the scientific information about newton, and his personal like was mainly overlooked. The film helped to shed some light on the his personal background and it showed that he wasn’t a charismatic or a person of well being from the beginning of his life. The film portrayed Newton in his early life sort of as a erratic person who at one point wanted to burn his parents alive, and it also portrayed him as loner who didn’t like to socialize with other people. Newton lived during a period of great conflict and violence in England. When he went to Cambridge university to further his studies, he again was a loner who stayed in the room by himself and did countless calculations which in the end led to some great invaluable discovery’s.

One of Newton’s greatest fields of research was in optics. Optics is the study of light, which deals with how lights are transmitted.  Unlike popular belief of the time period, newton believed that white light was not entirely pure. Instead he believed it was made up of a a variety of lights which could be found within the rainbow.  Newton later on proved his hypothesis by performing several different experiments with prism’s. Before doing so, he attempted to perform a dangerous experiment with his eye, which could have blinded him. Instead he chose to perform his experiment with prism’s to great success. Newton discovered that when regular light is passed through a prism, white light is actually made up of a variety of different lights, which he described as the colors of the rainbow. Newton’s research in optics eventually led him to work and focus his energy on telescope. Original telescopes used different types of lenses which worked pretty well but it had a sort of bluish glow around the planet being observed making it look very animated. Newton was able to solve this crucial problem, by replacing the lenses with mirrors, which enabled people to observe different planets without the animated glow. Newton published his discovery  a year after the death of his arch rival Robert hook.

Overall in the end the video itself was pretty interesting to watch. I was interested in learning the scientific details which i had not known from before. Overall the movie was pretty interesting to watch.

Newton’s Dark Secrets {Marcus C}

The documentary entitled, “Newton’s Dark Secrets,” was an educational venue. It brought me into the detailed life of Sir Issac Newton, himself. The ideal description that I could use to lable Newton, is that he is the secludded type. One who sits in there room for hours doing nothing more than discovering new ideas. When he was at Trinity Univrsity, one of the Ivy League schools of his day, he found himself not being able to have a social life. His comrads thought of putting pleasure before studies, and he thought that wasting ones time would be foolish. At one point during his college career, he moved in with one of the very few people that he could call a friend. They both shared similar morals when it came to studying.

One of Newton’s rivals, Robert Hooke, always had reason to refute his studies. He agreed with some of his findings, but only because he argued that he had discoverd some of the facts first. Some of Newtons reasonings were not always correct. For example, he argued against D’carte that things can only be proven if they can be tested i a lab. D’carte had said that he invisioned the universe as a giant machine, such as a clock, wereas parts were organized in order to work together.

Newton had taken his idea and became determined to explain the theories of the universe himself. It had been thought that the entire universe had revolved around the Earth itself. He argued that the other planets didn’t orbit the Earth, but rather they and the Earth itself orbitted the sun. The commonly known story of Sir Issac Newton and the falling apple was what led him to develop Calculus. This was known as the study of how things changed, or the rate of change. With this newly found version of math, Newton could calculate the way the planets moved.

When the apple had fallen from the tree, it struck Newton that the same force pulling the apple down was the same force that controlled the universal rotation of planets. By having this information, he discovered that the planets not only revolved around the sun, but they didn’t rotate in a circular motion. Their path was eliptical. The distance from the object, he stated, affected the strenght of the gravitaional pull. For example, if the planet was twice as far away from the sun, then the gravitaional force would have one-fourth the original strength.

After most of his findings, they were refuted and he vowed never to publish scientific works again. That is when he shifted to alchemy. Before he died, he had published two remarkable novels known as “The Principia Mathematica” and “Optics.” He died at the age of eighty-four.

Newton Dark Secrets

Isaac Newton is the father of modern day science. He came up with the laws of gravity. He also came up with the first modern day telescope. What I liked about the documentary is how they show Newton other interest like alchemy and his study of religion. Also I like how the documentary showed how his peers in the science community treated him.

Overall i like the documentary.

Newton’s Dark Sercrets

In this documentary, you find out about Newton’s ‘secrets’. What I didn’t know and found to be pretty interesting was  that Newton practiced Alchemy and was trying to find the legendary “Philosopher’s Stone”, which is a kind of mythical catalyst that can transform one element into another. Newton was convinced that ancient alchemical legends where indeed real, and put tons of effort into trying to uncover how to transform one element into another.

Overall, I found this documentary to be very interesting and wanted to know some more so I therefore did a search and came upon this.