Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
NEWTON
By Josep Rafecas
ISAAC NEWTON
1.Introduction
Isaac newton was an English mathematician and physicist who was widely
recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in
the scientific revolution.
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 at Woolsthorpe
Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth.
From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The
King's School, Grantham which taught him Latin but no mathematics. He was
removed from school, and by October 1659, he was to be found at Woolsthorpe-byColsterworth, where his mother, widowed for a second time, attempted to make a
farmer of him. Newton hated farming. Henry Stokes, master at the King's School,
persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his
education. Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully, he
became the top-ranked student.
In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on the
recommendation of his uncle Rev William Ayscough.
Soon after Newton had obtained his B.A. degree in August 1665, the university
temporarily closed as a precaution against the Great Plague. Although he had been
undistinguished as a Cambridge student, Newton's private studies at his home in
Woolsthorpe over the subsequent two years saw the development of his theories on
calculus and in April 1667, he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as
a fellow of Trinity.
4. References
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/isaac-newton-124.php
http://www.livescience.com/4965-isaac-newton-changed-world.html