Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born prematurely, on Christmas Day, 1642,
in the small English town of Woolsthorpe. His father, a farmer, died just before Isaac was born. When Isaac was three years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on the farm in Woolsthorpe with his grandmother. After going to small country school, he was sent at the age of twelve to the Kings School in the near by town of Grantham.
At first Isaac was an awful student.
He didn’t care about his school- work very much, all he ever wanted to do was paint, make kites, write in notebooks, and invent toys. He had no friends at all. Isaac was dull and dreamy, he had the worst grades in his class. Strangely, it ...
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taken out of school and was sent home to help her. Poor young Isaac could not farm for his life. He abandoned the necessary chores and only thought about mechanical things to make and books to study. There are many stories about him at that time that show how forgetful he was becoming. One of the stories is about when he was once leading a horse, it ran away, and he didn’t even notice. The story says that Isaac’s horse slipped its bridle and ran away. The story then says that Isaac got home with the empty bridle, and he hadn’t even noticed that the horse had gotten away. A lot of people say that every time an idea got into Newton’s head, he couldn’t think about anything else. Once, during a horrible storm, his mother sent him to shut the barn doors to keep them from being ripped off. Half an hour later she went to see why Isaac was still at the barn. He had totally forgotten about the barn doors. They were torn off their hinges, and Isaac was jumping again and again from an open ...
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all sent home, because people were afraid that the plague would strike Cambridge. Newton then returned to Woolsthorpe.
Fear of the awful plague kept Newton close to the farm for the next 18 months.
Almost always alone, he spent his time thinking out complicated mathematical problems. In that 18 month time period he started what would be his life’s work. During that time he discovered a new mathematical tool that he called fluxions or flowing quantities. Today, fluxions are known as calculus. One day in 1665 Newton 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 sent him thinking about ...
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