Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest theoretical and scientific minds of our world. The year that Galileo died, Isaac newton was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, his family’s estate, in Lincolnshire, England on January 4th, 1643 as a premature baby. Isaac was very frail and sickly. The women and housemaids didn’t even hurry to bring medicine to help him because nobody expected him to survive. But miraculously he did survive. Isaac’s father, Isaac Newton Sr., had died few months before his birth. His mother, Hannah Ayscough had married an older minister named Barnabas Smith when Isaac was barely three. Barnabas didn’t want to raise a child that wasn’t his, so Hannah abandoned poor little Isaac to live with his maternal grandparents while she moved in with her new husband. Barnabas and Hannah had three children, two daughters Hannah Smith Pilkington and Mary Smith, and a son, Benjamin Smith. Seven years later, when Isaac was ten, Hannah moved back into Woolsthorpe Manor with her three children because of Barnabas’s death. Isaac’s mother had always ignored him before she moved back. Isaac’s childhood was very bitter and lonely. The only Isaac’s imaginative mind had started wondering and discovering things ever since he was little. At the age of five Isaac went to village school. When Isaac was eleven, his mother had sent him to Kings School in Grantham, England where he stayed with a druggist named Mr. Clark. Isaac wasn’t very sociable so he didn’t make any good friend. He also did very poorly in school. But a fight with one of Mr. Clark’s son had motivated him to do better in academics, so he became the top student very quickly. While in Grantham, gadgets and model building caught his attention so he started making gadgets of his own, but he was also studying hard to stay on the top. A year later, his mother had tried to pull him out of school to make him take care of the farm but Isaac was not accustomed to farming so