Brief Biography Of Hannah Newton

Megamind In the sleepy, little town of Woolsthorpe, England, January 4, 1643, Hannah Newton became the proud mother of a small baby boy. The boy’s father had died three months prior to his son’s birth. So to honor him, Mrs. Newton named her son Isaac in remembrance of his father, Isaac Newton Sr. However, she never dreamed her son, descended from the humble farmer, would one day become one of the greatest scientific minds in history. After raising young Isaac for three years, Mrs. Newton decided to marry Barnebous Smith, a wealthy clergyman, leaving her son to live with his grandmother. Many scholars believe that the simple act of leaving Isaac to live with his grandmother contributed heavily to his mistrusting and suspicious personality later in life. At the age of ten, Isaac and his mother were reunited and lived happily together for two years. At the age of twelve, Isaac enrolled in King’s School in Grantham where he was introduced to the fascinating world of chemistry, planting the seeds for his later love of alchemy. After four years of schooling, his mother wanted him to return and become a farmer. Despite his good intentions, Isaac paid more
To avoid getting sick, Newton went back to Woolsthope with a shiny new bachelor’s degree. While waiting for the plague to pass, Newton continued reading and more importantly writing. During this time of waiting, Newton laid the foundation for calculus after creating the binomial theorem. Another area Newton expanded while waiting for the plague to pass was optics. Newton discovered that white light contains the entire color spectrum. The final thing Newton formulated during his stay at Woolsthope was the inverse square law for orbiting bodies. In a span of less than ten years Newton became one of the foremost scientists and mathematicians in Europe, earning respect from many in both