Sir Issac Newton

I will be writing a review about a guy name Isaac Newton. In my paper I will be talking about his life and his accomplishments within. However, I will not only be discussing his life but also talk about his studies and theories of universal gravitation and how he came about his theory of gravity. Sir Isaac Newton is a mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. He is a man that will be forever remembered because of his many accomplishment and all of his life time success. Things that he help bring about still are things that are talked about and still used today and is something in my opinion that will never change.

He was born December 25, 1642, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England died March 20, 1727, London, England. English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating, figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. With discoveries in optics, motion, and mathematics he developed the principles of modern physics. He was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus. Newton's Principia Mathematical (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), 1687, was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science.

He is the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac Newton. Young Isaac never knew his father, who died three months before he was born. A premature baby born tiny and weak, Isaac was not expected to survive. When he was three, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a well-do-do minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Isaac with his maternal grandmother. The experience left an indelible imprint on Isaac which manifested itself later in life as an acute sense of insecurity. He anxiously obsessed over his published work and defended its merits with irrational behavior.

At age twelve, Isaac Newton was reunited with his mother after her second husband died. She brought along her three small children from her second marriage. Isaac had been enrolled at the King's School, Grantham, England, where he lodged with a local apothecary and was introduced to the fascinating world of chemistry. His mother pulled him out of school, for her plan was to make him a farmer and have him tend the farm. Isaac failed miserably for he found farming monotonous. He soon was returned to King's School to finish his basic education. Perhaps sensing his innate intellectual abilities, his uncle, a graduate of Trinity College at Cambridge persuaded Isaac's mother to have him enter the university. Isaac enrolled in 1661 in a program similar to a work study where he waited