Isaac Newton

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to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she could
not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought
home to help her.

As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the
necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things
to make. There are many stories about him at that time that show how absent
minded he was becoming. One day while he was leading a horse, the animal
slipped its bridle and ran away. Isaac continued walking home with the
empty bridle, unaware that the horse was gone.

When an idea got into Newton's head, he could think of nothing else.
Once, during a storm, his mother sent him to shut the barn doors to keep
them from being torn off. Half an hour later she went to see what was keep
the boy so long. He had forgotten all about the barn doors. They were riped
off the hinges, and Newton was jumping again and again from an open window
to the ground. Each time, he marked the ...

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alone, He spent his time thinking out mathematical
problems. in those 18 months he laid the foundation for his lifes work.
During that time he hit upon a new mathematical tool he called fluxions or
flowing quantities. Today it is called calculus.

One day in 1665 Newtin was sitting in the garden in Woolsthorpe,
thinking about force that kept the moon moving around the earth, he saw an
apple fall from a tree. This set him thinking about falling objects. Why
did they fall down and not up? It must be because the earth is attracting
all objects to itself. The same force that made the apple fall downward
must also be attracting the moon and helping to keep it in orbit.

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