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16. People invented many strange tales to explain a rainbow.

17. A rainbow is formed when sunlight passes through falling drops.

18. He proved that white light consisted of rays of different colours and that each colour had its own place.

19. Every particle of matter in the universe is attracted to every other particle of matter.

20. Methods of calculation invented by Newton have ever since been used by every kind of scientist.

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21. Newton’s great work, the “Principia”, was published / published in 1687.

22. Mechanical laws acting on the earth connect / are connected with the mechanical laws of the whole Universe.

23. Newton had solved / had been solved one of the great riddles of the Universe.

24. Gravity had known / had been known long before Newton’s time.

25. Newton was spent / spent most of his time in experiments and calculations.

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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

	Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, in the first year of the Great Rebellion. Many people regard him as the greatest man whom England has produced but we mostly know very little about him.
	As a boy we know that he interested himself in conjuring tricks. As a man he made his first reflecting telescope whose most important part is a concave mirror, not lens. For this purpose he had to experiment with various alloys, and to grind his own mirrors. Today all large astronomical telescopes rely on mirrors rather than lenses to concentrate the light from distant stars. As an experimenter he showed that white light could be split up into colours. He also worked on static electrification.
	Newton will always be remembered as a great technician and a very great experimental physicist. In addition he was one of the greatest mathematicians, perhaps the greatest who ever lived. At the age of 22 he invented what is now called the differential calculus, and at the age of 23 – the integral calculus. Both these branches of mathematics were essentially tools of his great project of producing a mechanical account of natural events which would allow of their exact prediction.
	The principles governing the flight of cannon balls were being worked out at this time. Newton showed that the Moon in its course round the Earth and other planets in their course round the Sun, obeyed the same laws. This was a very great mathematical achievement. He also discovered the laws governing the flow of heat and some fluids. How deeply Newton penetrated into the nature of matter, is shown by a simple fact. The moving stars do not obey Newton’s laws exactly. But their largest deviations from these laws are about one three hundredth part of the errors of measurement made by astronomers in Newton’s day.
	Newton was not only a scientist. He also was a politician. In 1687 King James II threatened the liberties of Cambridge University. Newton argued the case for the University and was elected by it to Parliament in 1689, as
	a supporter of the Revolution. He later became Warden and then Master of the Mint. These were key points as there was no paper money in those days, so the Mint was as important as the great banks are today. His knowledge of metallurgy was put in the service of the state. In 1703 Newton was elected President of the Royal Society, the highest body of scientific learning in England.
	In fact Newton took part in the progressive political movements of history. Like most great men, he was an all-rounded man. The idea that scientists should shut themselves away from everyday life did not appeal to him. He saw that science arises from, and ministers to, social needs, and he acted accordingly.

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Great Rebellion – “Великий мятеж” (неодобрительное название гражданской войны в Англии в XVII веке)

conjuring tricks – фокусы иллюзиониста

concave mirror – вогнутое зеркало

rather than – а не …

differential (integral) calculus – дифференциальное (интегральное) исчисление

Warden of the Mint – смотритель монетного двора

Royal Society – Королевское (научное) общество

I. Какое из данных утверждений выражает основную идею текста?

1. Newton was one of the greatest minds of his time and gave all his time to determining the laws which rule the Universe.

2. Newton led a quiet life in study and scientific work indifferent to what was going on around him.

3. Newton was not only a man of science but also a politician and the holder of some key posts.