Isaac newton biography short

1. SUMMARY

Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (he was born on January 4, 1643 and died on March 31, 1727 at age 84) known mainly for:

– Laying the foundations of classical mechanics through his three laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.

– Developing the integral and differential calculus (simultaneously and independently of Gottfried Leibniz).

– Discovering that white light is made up of the set of all colors.

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ISAAC NEWTON BIOGRAPHY

Isaac Newton was born prematurely on January 4, 1643 to a peasant family in Woolsthorpe Manor, a small village in the county of Lincolnshire, England.

Newton had a complicated childhood.

Three months before his birth his father died and at three years old his mother left him with his grandparents when her new husband refused to raise a stepchild. Newton would not return to his native village until the death of his stepfather