1st+Period+-+Sir+Isaac+Newton

=1st Period - Sir Isaac Newton= By:Seth Rowe



Date of birth:December 25, 1642

Location of birth:Woolsthorpe Manor England

Parents’ names:Hannah and Isaac Newton

Family background:Isaacs dad died in october.His mother named little Isaac after his father.Befor getting out of college Isaac invinted a branch of mathmatics called the calculus.Then he designed a reflecting telescope.

Date of death:March,20th,1727

Location of death/grave:WestMinster Abbey in London.

Education:Village schools in skillington and stoke.Kings schools called the grantham free school.In grantham 1655-1660 with interuptions. Career:He was a president of the Royal society.Then he becomes a professer of mathmatics at trinity college. Becomes wardon and later master of the Royal mint.1704 he was knighted by queen Anne.

Legacy:Isaac is famous for all the mathmatics the law of gravity.He is one of the most brilliant scientist of all time. As well as one of the greatest mathmatican in Englands history. At kings school Isaac Newton continued to study the traditional subjects for educated young men of his time.

Additional/Interesting information:Newtons father died when he was fifteen.Newtons uncle saw the potential of little Isaacs scientific talents. Newton was the first exposed to the world of mathmatics.Newton became fasinated by mathmatics and he quickly masterd descrates.

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