Isaac Newton Biography

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Sir Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643. If you were to look at the calendar they used back in the olden days when Sir Isaac Newton was alive his actual birth date would have been December 25, 1642. Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. Sir Isaac Newton was born premature. They did not think Sir Isaac Newton was going to live.
Sometime in October in 1642 Isaac Newton’s father, also named Isaac Newton, died. This was three months before Sir Isaac Newton was born so he never got to meet his son and Sir Isaac Newton never got to meet his father. Sir Isaac Newton’s father was a wealthy farmer. Even though Sir Isaac Newton’s father was wealthy he could not read or write. Sir Isaac Newton’s father could not even write his own name. Hannah Ayscough Newton, fell in love with another man and married him. Isaac Newton was three when his mother re married. Hannah Ayscough Newton married Barnabas Smith. Barnabus Smith was a minister. Hannah Ayscough Newton left her three year old son, Sir Isaac Newton, with Sir Isaac Newton’s grandparents. Because Sir Isaac Newton’s mother left him with his grandmother and grandfather he always felt different and insecure and anxious about everything he did. When Isaac Newton was twelve his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, came back to care for Isaac Newton. Her second husband, Barnabas Smith, had died. When Hannah Ayscough Newton came back she was accompanied by her three children that she had conceived with Barnabas Smith.
Sir Isaac Newton went to school at the King’s school out of his home town. Sir Isaac Newton lived with an apothecary as he went to school. While living with the apothecary Sir Isaac Newton learned about chemistry. Sir Isaac Newton instantly fell in love with chemistry a...

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...elf busy by burying himself in his research.
Later in 1693 Sir Isaac Newton experienced another very serious nervous disorder. Sir Isaac Newton’s illness may have been caused by stress or chronic mercury poisoning from doing research in alchemy.
Sir Isaac Newton was never married but he was once engaged.
Sir Isaac Newton got into heated discussions with scientists. Sir Isaac Newton was a strong Christian and wrote about the Judaeo- Christian prophecy.
Sir Isaac Newton passed away March 31, 1727. His remains were placed at the Westminster Abbey cemetery. Sir Isaac Newton lived from January 4, 1643 to March 31, 1727. Sir Isaac Newton was eighty four years old when he died. Sir Isaac Newton lived a long and prosperous life. Sir Isaac Newton did a lot to contribute to math, science, and history. Sir Isaac Newton was a philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and theorist.

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