中央大学通信過程　2022年英語（C）〈I03A〉第１課題（2）解説

提出･評価済みレポートではなく、課題の解説です。文法事項よりも、直訳から自然な日本語にブラッシュアップしていく過程に力点をおいて書いています。機械翻訳ではまだ難しい部分です。
完璧な翻訳になっている保証はないですが、勉強の参考までに。使用辞書は研究社の新英和中辞典第7版。翻訳時のTOEICスコアは900です。

新英和中辞典第7版

英語C課題1(1)の解説はこちら
https://note.com/tuner/n/n7baa8cb4e5bb

課題文（2）
Following the enforced isolation and leisure of the plague years, Newton returned to Cambridge, received a master’s degree, and was appointed a fellow of Trinity College. Shortly thereafter his old teacher, Barrow, withdrew, and Newton, at the age of twenty-seven, became professor of mathematics, a position which he held for the next twenty-seven years. For the next decade or two little was heard of Newton. It is known that he continued his 　investigations of light, and published a paper on his discovery of the composite nature of white light. Immediately he became involved in controversy, first because his conclusions on the subject of light were in opposition to those then prevailing; and, second, because he had included in the paper a statement on his philosophy of science. In the latter, he had expressed the point of view that the chief function of science is to carry out carefully planned experiments, to record observations of the experiments, and lastly to prepare mathematical laws based on the results. As Newton stated it, the “proper method for enquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.” While these principles are in complete accord with modern scientific research, they were by no means fully accepted in Newton’s day.

以下、解説です。