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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Made by Coronet, this profile of Sir Isaac Newton dates to 1959, the early part of the Space Age. As a result the film directly connects Newton's major theories with rocketry. At 1:20 a satellite is shown orbiting the Earth. At 1:32 the school where Newton went as a boy is shown, and a childhood fight is re-enacted. At 2:08, Newton is shown at Cambridge, reading books about science. The rest of the film shows re-enactments of Newton's time at Trinity College. At 4:14, Newton returns home to Woolesthorpe due to the outbreak of bubonic plague in England. At 4:38, Newton begins working on a series of mathematical problems. At 5:10, in 1665, Newton works on what becomes known as the Binomial Theorum of Algebra. At 6:00, Newton works on what becomes differential calculus and integral calculus. At 7:29 Newton conducts an experiment that determines that white light contain
