Isaac Newton
was born prematurely, on Christmas day 1642, in a
small English town called Woolsthorpe. His father was a farmer, but died
shortly after Isaac was born. Isaac's mother remarried 3 years later, but
his stepfather died when Isaac was 14.
Newton was sent to school at the age of 12, at the King's School,
near Grantham. At first, Newton was a poor student. He was at the bottom of
his class. He cared more about painting, making kites, and inventing toys.
Amazingly, one day, a big bad bully gave him a hard kick. The little dreamy
boy flew into a mad rage, and beat the other boy thoroughly. Yet that
didn't satisfy him enough. He wanted to beat the other kid in school work,
too. Soon he was at the ...
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She found Isaac jumping,
again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the
jump, and measure the force of the wind.
Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and
sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661.
When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The teacher's
were impressed by him. Isaac read every book he could find, especially on
mathematics and physics. From this Newton knew most of the things they
taught, before they taught it.
In 1665, Newton worked out a basic formula called the binomial
theory. We still use that today. In that same year, Newton graduated from
Trinity College, but wanted to stay. The school was shut down for eighteen
months in fear of the black plague, so of course he couldn't go. He went
back to the farm for that time, and had a lot of time to think. During
that eighteen months, he invented calculus.
One day in 1665, Newton was sitting in his garden, wondering what
kept the moon up ...
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