Isaac Newton
A Closer Look
Isaac Newton was born in 1642 in England. He was born in Lincolnshire on Christmas Day. Newton's father died three months before he was born, and his mother remarried a wealthy clergyman when he was three, leaving him to live with his grandmother. Eight years later the clergyman died and Isaac's mother came back. Two years after that, Newton went to Grammar School in Grantham, and began to find himself fascinated with chemicals.
After his grammar school, he was supposed to come back and take care of the farm, however, it turned out that he was a lousy farmer. It was then decided that it would be good for him to go to university, so he enrolled in 1661 at Trinity College, Cambridge. He paid his first three years by doing odd jobs, but in 1664 he was elected a scholar, which guaranteed him four years of financial support. However, in 1665 the plague was spreading across Europe, and caused the university to close.
These two statues of Newton can be found at Trinity College
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During this time Newton went home and began to look at problems concerning mathematics and physics. It was during this summer that be first began to understand the theory of gravitation and the theory of optics. He also developed many ideas about integral and differential calculus, however, he was always very reluctant to print anything publicly.
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