The day Galileo disappeared from our world, Sir Isaac Newton breathed life into him. Sir Isaac Newton was born on 25 December 1642 in Woolsthorpe. Before he was born, his father died, so he was raised with the scent and presence of his mother, Hannah. Despite this, at the age of three, his mother married someone else and abandoned him to the care of his grandmother, devastating him and shaking his foundation. He received local basic, or elementary, education until the age of twelve, then attended King's School in Grantham. In 1661, at the age of nineteen, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and worked towards his degree. He then decided to go to work for his master's degree. The plague hit Europe in 1666 and the University closed. The next eighteen months were spent studying in solitude in his manor. When the College reopens he quickly obtains his Master's degree. He later becomes a professor for this college for 27 years. During these times he brought to light optics, the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and gravitation. After learning all this, he contributed his discoveries to the Enlightenment and influenced the thinkers of the future. An impressive feat accomplished by Sir Isaac Newton was the evolution of optics. All scientists since Aristotle believed that light was a simple entity, but Newton thought differently through his studies and building telescopes. It was thought that “The idea that visual perception involves a medium that somehow relates the observed to the observer is as old as ancient Greece” (Darrigol 117). Isaac Newton challenged old ideas after an experiment with a prism and the way it refracted light, as he saw it happen in a telescope where he saw rings of colors distort the image. This part... in the middle of the paper... its own experiment. Even so, Newton understood what many failed to grasp in his time, making him a great thinker and a revolutionary in the field of science. Works Cited Darrigol, Olivier. "The analogy between light and sound in the history of optics from the ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 1." Centaurus 52.2 (2010): 117-155. Academic research completed. Network. April 11, 2014. Newton, Isaac, Andrew Motte, Florian Cajori, and RT Crawford. The mathematical principles of Sir Isaac Newton's natural philosophy and his system of the world. Berkeley: University of California, 1975. Print. "Newton's Three Laws of Motion." Newton's three laws of motion. Np, nd Web. April 12, 2014.Berlinski, David. Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the World System. NewYork: Free, 2000. Print.Edgar, Robert R. Civilizations Past and Present. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2008. Print.