Issac Newton Research Paper

Issac newton was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. Newtons father (also Issac newton) died (at 36) shortly before he was born,he was a farmer. A little while after his mother was remarried and at the age of three he went to live with his grandmother. Issac was not fond of his stepdad and began to resent his parent at a very young age, it is said his family issues contributed to lifelong insecurity. At the age of 12 he went to study at the kings school, Grantham. There he studied neither math nor science, nonetheless he excelled in his studies. Some years after he started school his mother was widowed for the second time, and took him out of school in hopes to make him a farmer. After failing to show either a passion or skill for farming his mother was convinced to allow him to go back to school, this time …show more content…
At trinity he was first introduced to (and took an interest in) math and natural philosophy (physics). Though the schools curriculum was primarily based on the writings of Greek philosophers like Plato,Euclid, and Aristotle; newton was interested in the more recent works of Galileo, Boyle, and Kepler (and consequently largely disregarded the work of the Greek philosophers). Reading works of these men awakened in him the desire to discover things not yet known and ask questions that had not yet been answered by science. He did well enough to win a four year scholarship allowing him to completely devote himself to his work, and in 1665 invented the generalized binomial theorem. Newton went on to have many more mathematical and scientific achievements. He also studied alchemy (something he became interested in at trinity) and was serious about finding the "philosophers stone", a legendary substance said to be able to turn different metals into gold or silver (it was also believed to be able to give