Newton's Early years                                                                                                                                                                                                 (The above picture was taken from http://www.equationsheet.com/sheets.Equations-2.html)     Isaac Newton was born in England in 1642. He grew up never knowing his real father but resenting his step father. At age 19, Newton went off to Trinity College in Cambridge where he studied philosophers and astronomers such as Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus. It was here; while he obtained his degree, that Newton devised the theory of Calculus. He obtained his degree in 1665 and then dedicated his time to the binomial theory and Calculus.1 By 1666 Newton was the most advanced and enlightened mathematician our world had yet to see.2     Newton wrote in these beginning years as a physicist, “the nature of things is more securely and naturally deduced from their operations on one another than upon the senses; our explanation of both soul and body.”  This was Newton’s turning point in addressing nature and its questions in a more scientific manor.2