Sir Isaac Newton
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: British History, 18th Century European History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: With his three laws of mechanics and his theoretical basis for the concept of gravity, Newton pioneered the science of physics, establishing principles that remained current until the twentieth century.
Early Life
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, to a farmer and his wife, at Woolsthorpe Manor, just south of Grantham in Lincolnshire. His father died shortly before Newton’s birth, and when his mother remarried three years later, Newton remained at Woolsthorpe to be reared by his grandparents. He attended the grammar school...
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