Newton's Accomplishments

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At age 16 his mother decided Newton should quit school and run the farm, but he showed no interest and wasn't very good at it, so his mother realized he should go to university, so she arranged for him to finish school. In 1665 the university he went to (Cambridge University) closed due to an outbreak of the Plague. During the years he was home, he made three discoveries that revolutionized the future of science. They were the calculus, understanding the composition of light, and the law of universal gravitation. Newton surprisingly struggled a lot in school so he worked and studied harder to get better and smarter. He got in the Royal Society in 1671 because of his invention of the reflecting telescope. In 1675 he offered his resignation