Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. According to the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642. Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642.

Isaac's mother Hannah Ayscough remarried Barnabas Smith the minister of the church at North Witham, a nearby village, when Isaac was two years old. The young child was then left in the care of his grandmother Margery Ayscough at Woolsthorpe. Basically treated as an orphan, Isaac did not have a happy childhood. His grandfather James Ayscough was never mentioned by Isaac in later life and the fact that James left nothing to Isaac in his will, made when the boy was ten years old, suggests that there was no love lost between the two.

Upon the death of his stepfather in 1653, Newton lived with his mother, his grandmother, one half-brother, and two half-sisters. Shortly after this time Isaac began attending the Free Grammar School in Grantham. During this time Isaac lodged with the Clark family at Grantham. However he seems to have shown little promise in academic work. An uncle, William Ayscough, decided that Isaac should prepare for entering university and, having persuaded his mother that this was the right thing to do, Isaac was allowed to return to the Free Grammar School in Grantham in 1660 to complete his school education. This time he lodged with Stokes, who was the headmaster of the school. Some evidence points to Stokes also persuading Isaac's mother to let him enter university, so it is likely that Isaac had shown more promise in his first time at the school than the school reports may have suggested.

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Newton entered his uncle's old College, Trinity College Cambridge, on 5 June 1661. He was older than most of his fellow students but, despite the fact that his mother was financially well off, he entered as a sizar. A sizar at Cambridge was a student who received an allowance toward college expenses in exchange for acting as a servant to other students. Newton's aim at Cambridge was a law degree. Instruction at Cambridge was dominated by the philosophy of  but in the third year of the course he was allowed to study whoever he wanted to. Newton studied the philosophy ...

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