Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on J...

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Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4, 1643. His father, a farmer who was also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before his birth. His mother remarried when Isaac was three years old and left young Isaac in the care of his grandparents.

Isaac attended school where he was an adequate student. At one point his mother tried to take him out of school so he could help on the farm, but Isaac had no interest in becoming a farmer and was soon back at school.

In 1661 he went to Trinity College Cambridge. Isaac Newton obtained a BA in 1665. In 1666 Isaac Newton was forced to flee Cambridge because of an outbreak of the plague and he returned temporarily to Woolsthorpe. He returned to university in 1667.

In 1667 Isaac Newton was elected a fellow of Trinity College. The same year he was elected a member of the Royal Society. In February 1672 a paper he wrote about light and colors was read to the society. In 1669 Isaac Newton became Lucasian professor of mathematics. In the meantime, in 1668, he invented a reflecting telescope.

In 1689-1690 Isaac Newton was MP for Cambridge University (in those days Cambridge University had its own MPs). He became an MP again in 1701-1702 but he did not take an active part in politics.

Isaac Newton published his masterpiece Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687. It set out his theory of gravity and his laws of motion.

In 1695 Isaac Newton was made Ward of the mint and in 1699 Master of the mint. He resigned his fellowship and professorship at Cambridge in 1701.

In 1703 Isaac Newton became president of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1705. Meanwhile in 1704 Isaac Newton published another great work about light. Newton died on March 31, 1727 in London, England. Today, he is considered one of the most influential scientists of all time alongside greats such as Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Galileo.

37. The main idea of the fourth paragraph is ....

A. Newton's life during an outbreak 
B. Newton's old life 
C. Newton's life during 1667-1669 
D. Newton's inventions in physics 
E. Newton's death

A. Nur · Accepted Answer

Hai Diandra.

Jawaban untuk soal ini adalah: A. Newton's life during an outbreak.

Soal ini meminta kamu untuk memilih ide pokok dari paragraf 4.

Arti dari paragraf 4 adalah: "Pada 1667 Isaac Newton terpilih sebagai anggota dari Trinity College. Pada tahun yang sama ia terpilih sebagai anggota Royal Society. Pada bulan Februari 1672 sebuah makalah yang ditulisnya tentang cahaya dan warna dibacakan kepada masyarakat. Pada 1669 Isaac Newton menjadi profesor matematika Lucasian. Sementara itu, pada tahun 1668, ia menemukan teleskop pantul".

Adapun, paragraf selanjutnya menjelaskan tentang adanya Wabah dan Isaac terpaksa meninggalkan Cambridge lalu kembali lagi pada tahun 1667 (In 1666 Isaac Newton was forced to flee Cambridge because of an outbreak of the plague and he returned temporarily to Woolsthorpe. He returned to university in 1667).

Jadi, dapat disimpulkan kalau paragraf 4 menjelaskan tentang kehidupan Isaac setelah terjadi wabah.

Maka, jawaban yang paling tepat adalah "A. Newton's life during an outbreak".

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