Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

Introduction

Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. As a child, Newton was not a brilliant student, but he liked to invent and build objects. From young appeared as "quiet, silent and thoughtful" though full of imagination. He amused building contraptions: a windmill, a water clock, a cart that walked by a crank driven by the same driver, etc. He attended primary school in Grantham. In 1661, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics under the direction of mathematician Isaac Barrow (Palter, 1970). He received his bachelor's degree in 1665 ...