Something new with the Google Doodle today. I noticed a new Doodle on the Google Homepage to honor Sir Isaac Newton. The logo has an animated falling Apple. Google usually decorates their logo with Doodle’s whenever they want to celebrate a special day, and today happens to be one of them. Isaac Newton was born on January 4…

Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential scientists in history. His 1687 publication of the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually called the Principia) is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries..