Life.
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642 on a small farm in Woolsthorpe, .
England. His father, a farmer, passed away a few months before his birth. Newton's mother .
remarried in 1645 and left young Isaac with his grandmother. After attending many local.
schools, Newton was sent to a grammar school at age twelve. He displayed an interest in .
mechanical contrivances. He made kites, water-clocks, sun-dials, and windmills. .
After the death of her second husband in 1656, Newton's mother returned home and .
removed her eldest son, Isaac, from school so that her might be prepared to manage the farm.
It was soon obvious that Newton's interests were not in farming, and with the advice of his uncle.
he was sent to Trinity College in Cambridge. Isaac became more of a professor than a student as .
gave lectures of mathematics and mechanics. After several of Newton's readings, his teacher, .
Isaac Barrow, gave him a book of many mathematical findings. It is said to be that this book .
inspired Newton to study original mathematical work. .
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London and college was dismissed. Newton.
returned home to the farm. There, he conducted many experiments in physics and chemistry and.
continued his mathematical speculations. .
When Trinity College re-opened in 1667, Newton was elected to the Royal Society. In .
1670, a few months before he turned twenty-seven, he was appointed a professor of original.
mathematics. In February, 1672, Newton was re-elected to the Royal Society. He presented .
some of his theories to his fellows and thereby started a controversy which was to last for many.
years. Isaac found this controversy as "distasteful" and blamed himself.
It was not until the year of 1684 that Newton began to think of making known his work.
In some sixteen or seventeen months between 1685 and 1686 Newton wrote the Mathematical.
Principles of Natural Philosophy in Latin which was written Philosphiae Naturalis Principia .