A Brief Biography Of Isaac Newton

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In 1642, on Christmas day in Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton, was named after his father who died three months before he was born and was premature. Isaac was a small baby and not expected to survive. He was so small that his mother, Hannah Ayscough, said he could fit inside a quart mug. Isaac was raised by his grandmother after his mother remarried three years after he was born. The man his mother remarried died and she returned home with her three, small children. In 1655, he attended Grantham Grammar school. Isaac didn’t excel in school, but when he was seventeen his mother insisted that he should come home to keep the family farms going. Isaac had no skills in farming whatsoever, so his uncle persuaded her to let him attend Trinity College in Cambridge. Isaac got his bachelor’s degree in 1655. He studied math, physics, optics, and astronomy on his own. Cambridge closed down due to the Black Death plague carried by rats. Finally in 1666, he finished his early work on his three laws of motion. First law An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced fo...

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