Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton


Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day in 1642. He was also born premature and wasn’t expected to live. His father died three months before he was born, leaving his mother alone to raise him. His mother remarried to Barnabas Smith. He was a rather wealthy man and he forced his new wife to leave her son with his grandparents while they go live in South Witham. For everything that’s happened since his mother’s remarriage, he’s been keeping a diary explaining the hatred that he feels for his stepfather. While he was with his grandmother he would spend the day in his room making kites and other mechanical devices. When he turned ten, his stepfather died and his mother returned to live with him. After much persuasion he decided to attend Cambridge University where all his inventions took place.

He decided to figure out theory for gravity when an apple fell on his head in the summer of 1666. Being only 22 years old he was attending college. D...