2nd+Period+-+Sir+Isaac+Newton

=2nd Period - Sir Isaac Newton= By:Juan Aguado

Date of birth:December 25 1642.

Location of birth:Woolsthore Licolnshtne,england.

Parents’ names:Hannnah ayscough newton ,Isaac newton, and ,Barnabas smith.

Family background:Isaac had two fathers one died and the other was his Stepdad he had one stepbrother and two step sisters his mother left for seven years and he had to live with his grandparents hated his step father.

Date of death:march 20 1727

Location of death/grave:London,England

Education:Newton did go to school he went to a school in a village near by in skillington and stoek.Isaac went to many schools.He went to kings schoalor also known as grantham free school in grantham in the years 1655 - 1660.Isacc Newton went to a college in combridge in the years 1661 - 1668. Career:Sir isaac newton became the mathimatics professor in a college called trinty college.When he was a professor he had his own stuff no one to boss him around.Sometimes mr.Newton would go and be with his fellow professers and he sometimes had lunch with them to.Mr.newton sometimes did not eat lunch at all because he was thinking about something. Legacy:Sir Isaac Newton was famouse for making the laws of gravity.He made that law when one day he was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell from a tree and then that made him think why did this apple fall down why did it not go up or left or right so that got him thinking at first he thought it was like a magnet to him so that was the start of the laws of gravity.

Additional/Interesting information:Sir Isaac Newton wrote a book called [this is a very long title] opticks:or a treatise of the reflelexions,refractions,inflexions and colours of light.Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures.This was Sir Isaac Newtons book.He was buride with heros [scientists]and said if he could see farther than other people than he would be sitting on the shoulders of a giant.

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