Isaac Newton Biography

Sir Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, by the Georgian calendar on Christmas day in the manor house of Woolsthrope, England, Isaac was born prematurely. Isaac`s father just passed away three months before he was born. He had a very difficult childhood. Hanna Ayscough Newton, his mother, remarried another man when Isaac was three years old, and was sent to love with his grand parents.

After his stepfathers death, when Isaac was 11, his mother to0ok him back to live with her in Woolsthrope in Lincolnshire, where he attended a school called kings School, Grantham. He came from a family of farmers, and was anticipated to carry on the farming tradition, that’s what his mother wanted anyway, until his uncle acknowledged how intelligent he was.

His mother extracted him from grammar school in Grantham where he had shown insufficient work in academics. His report cards describe him ‘inattentive’ and ‘idle’. His uncle thought that he should be prepared for college. He soon later attended his uncle`s old college Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661.

Isaac had to earn his keep waiting because he was poor, and the others were wealthy. He wanted to graduate from Cambridge being a law degree. Isaac barrow who encouraged him and was under his wing, Barrow held the Lucasian Chair of mathematics took. Newton got his undergraduate degree without accomplishing a lot in college, he would have gone to get his masters, but the Great Plague broke out in London, and all the students were sent home.

This was a really productive time for Isaac. He conducted experiments on prisms and sunlight. He soon discovered that sunlight was made up of different colors. This reunited to his work on reflecting telescopes. He was also working ...

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...s proclaimed king in parts of Ireland, England, and Scotland, where he was crowned after accepting the terms of the Scottish. In sixteen fifty one he marched into England, but got defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Worcester. Charles then escaped to France, where he lived in sixteen sixty Gen. George engineered Charles’ to give back the throne. In America the colonies of New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina were being founded during Isaac Newton’s lifetime.

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