The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton’s life follows the quote, “Good is the enemy of great,”-Jim Collins. Isaac Newton started from ground zero and decided to work his way up in life to being good at anything he wanted to. During a period of 1669 to 1687, Sir Isaac departed on the most prolific period of his lifetime which changed his thought process to being great. His last period and longest period of his life was the expansion to a new position and the continuation of being great. Sir Isaac’s life defined the ideas of how someone can have a poor start in life and recover. (1643-1669), how something can always be improved (1670-1692), and how hard work will pay off(1693-1727).
The first chapter of Isaac Newton’s life officially started on the corrected Gregorian Calendar date of January 4th, 1648 when he was born to his father Isaac Newton and his mother Hannah Ayscough. Sir Isaac’s father was wealthy because of his property and livestock, but he lacked education and literacy. Sir Isaac’s father died before he was born and his mother remarried to another man at the age of two, which left poor Isaac in the care of his grandmother, Margery Ayscough. Isaac was starting at rock bottom and was left to fend for himself. Isaac had a very unhappy childhood and was not loved by his new parents. Isaac was also quite acid toward his birth mother and her husband. Isaac moved in with the Clark Family in 1653. After the move, Isaac began to attend the Free Grammar School in Grantham. Isaac was a massive underachiever that lacked focus. After accruing a significant amount of prosperity, Isaac’s mother saw fit that Isaac should be the right person to manage her estate. Isaac left the Free Grammar School and began to manage her estate. Isaac did ...

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... would be the next president of the Royal Society so he held out in office as long as he could until his death in 1703. In 1689, Newton was elected as Cambridge’s representative to Parliament. Newton improved his good work from 1866, to make his great work, the Principia.
The third and final chapter of Newton’s life started in a rather dark depression known as Newton’s Black Year in 1893. Newton’s scientific career and stint at Cambridge came to a climax with the publication of the Principia. Newton sought after a new frontier to find content. Newton suffered a nervous breakdown from depression in 1693 which caused him to retire from stressful research. After his second period of withdrawal, Newton shed his skin and achieved the governmental position called Warden to Master of the Mint which he was quite enthusiastic about. Newton held the position until he died.

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