The Life of Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was one the greatest scientists of the seventeenth century. He was a mathematician as well as a physicist. His scientific discoveries revolutionized science as we know it today. Born in England in the sixteen-forties, he was the son of a very successful farmer in the local area. As he was born premature many expected that he would not have survived. His father died before he was born and his mother left him when he was only a few years old. For the next several years his grandmother would raise him. This experience was pretty traumatic for the young Newton. It caused him to become excessively obsessed on all of his work in his later years. At around twelve years old he was reunited with his mother who left her second husband. His mother then attempted to make him do farm work so he could become a farmer just like his father, but Newton became disinterested and did a bad job in this
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It was in academia that Newton tended to excel at. He attended The King’s School in Grantham for most of his childhood and earned excellent grades. It was academia that not only Newton himself knew was his strongest area, but others as well began to notice, such as his uncle who encouraged his mother to send him to university instead of farming. Isaac Newton changed science and mathematics forever through his interest in academics, scientific discoveries, and personal life experiences.
As stated earlier, Isaac Newton did well in school and academics, it is what helped get through some of his traumatic experiences as a child. Although in the beginning, when Newton was young some people didn’t think that he was intelligent, obviously, this perception would change