Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born prematurely, on Christmas Day, 1642,
in the small English town of Woolsthorpe. His father, a farmer, died just before Isaac was born. When Isaac was three years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on the farm in Woolsthorpe with his grandmother. After going to small country school, he was sent at the age of twelve to the Kings School in the near by town of Grantham.
At first Isaac was an awful student.
He didn�t care about his school- work very much, all he ever wanted to do was paint, make kites, write in notebooks, and invent toys. He had no friends at all. Isaac was dull and dreamy, he had the worst grades in his class. Strangely, it was a good hard kick by a school bully that caused Newton's genius mind to bloom. The boring, dreamy boy flew into a rage and beat up the other boy so badly, the bully supposedly cried. Isaac was determined to beat the bully in school- work as well. Soon Isaac had the best grades in his class.
In 1656 Newton's stepfather died.
His mother returned to Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she didn�t have enough money, so she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and was sent home to help her. Poor young Isaac could not farm for his life. He abandoned the necessary chores and only thought about mechanical things to make and books to study. There are many stories about him at that time that show how forgetful he was becoming. One of the stories is about when he was once leading a horse, it ran away, and he didn�t even notice. The story says that Isaac�s horse slipped its bridle and ran away. The story then says that Isaac got home with the empty bridle, and he hadn�t even noticed that the horse had gotten away. A lot of people say that every time an idea got into Newton�s head, he couldn�t think about anything else. Once, during a horrible storm, his mother sent him to shut the barn doors to keep them from being ripped off. Half an hour later she went to see why Isaac was still at the barn. He had totally forgotten about the barn doors. They were torn off their hinges, and Isaac was jumping again and again from an open window to the ground. Each time, he marked the spot where he landed. Isaac was trying to measure how strong that the force of the wind was. When the gusts were powerful, his jumps were longer than when the wind was weaker. Finally figuring out that her son was not the type that is good at farm life, Newton's mother sent him back to Kings School....
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