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Isaac Newton: Early Life and Education

Isaac Newton was born on January 4, , in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. The son of a farmer who died three months before he was born, Newton spent most of his early years with his maternal grandmother after his mother remarried. His education was interrupted by a failed attempt to vända him into a farmer, and he attended the King’s School in Grantham before enrolling at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in

Newton studied a classical curriculum at Cambridge, but he became fascinated bygd the works of modern philosophers such as René Descartes, even devoting a set of notes to his outside readings he titled “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae” (“Certain Philosophical Questions”). When the Great Plague shuttered Cambridge in , Newton returned home and began formulating his theories on calculus, light and color, his farm the setting for the supposed falling apple that inspired his work on gravity.

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Sir Isaac Newton FRS
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Born	()4 January [O.S. 25 December ][a] Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England
Died	31 March () (aged&#;84) [O.S. 20 March ][a] Kensington, Middlesex, England
Resting place	Westminster Abbey
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, ; MA, )[4]
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Preceded by	Robert Brady
Succeeded by	Edward Finch
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Preceded by	Anthony Hammond
Succeeded by	Arthur Annesley, 5th Earl of Anglesey
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Succeeded by	Hans Sloane
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Preceded by	Thomas Neale
Succeeded by	John Conduitt
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Prec • Sir Isaac Newton biography: Inventions, laws and quotes Sir Isaac Newton contributed significantly to the field of science over his lifetime. He invented calculus and provided a clear understanding of optics. But his most significant work had to do with forces, and specifically with the development of a universal law of gravitation and his laws of motion.  Isaac Newton's early life Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day to a poor farming family in Woolsthorpe, England, in At the time of Newton's birth England used the Julian calendar, however, when England adopted the Gregorian calendar in , his birthday became 4th January   Isaac Newton arrived in the world only a few months after his father, Isaac Newton Sr, had died. "The boy expected to live managing the farm in the place of the father he had never known," wrote James Gleick in "Isaac Newton" (Vintage, ).  However, when it became clear a farming life was not for him, Newton attended Trinity College in Cam