Sir Isaac Newton (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, to a farmer and his wife, at Woolsthorpe, 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 in Grantham. His scientific aptitude appeared early when he began to construct mechanical toys and models, and aside from a brief period when his mother tried to persuade him to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a farmer (it is said that...
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