Sir Isaac Newton was born in
Woolsthorpe, England on December 25, 1642He attended Trinity College Cambridge.
He lived for 85 years.
His father died before he was born, his
mother, Hannah Newton, remarried and moved away, leaving him to be raised by an
uncle
He attended Free Grammar School and then went
to Trinity College Cambridge, in 1661.
While Newton was in college he was writing his
new ideas in a journal about motion, gravity, light, and forces.
Newton became interested in math and invented
a calculus, physics and formulated the three laws of motion, and astronomy and
conceived the law of gravitation.
He received both a bachelors and master’s
degree.
Newton was president of the Royal Society and
knighted by Queen Anne.
His accomplishments laid the foundations for
modern science and revolutionized the world.
He
died in 1727.
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