Sir Isaac Newton was a very talented man and people would sometimes say that in the time he lived, could have been called the age of Newton. He was specialized in physicists, math, astronomy, philosophy, and alchemy in short, a renaissance man.
Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day 1642 in Woolsthorpe Manor. Almost three months after he was born his father passed away. When Isaac was three, his mother remarried and went on to live with Barnabus Smith (her new husband). Since his mom had left, he was put in the care of his grandma. Two years later, Newton went away to the King's School in Grantham, he stayed with the local doctors there. While he was there, the chemicals the doctors were using fascinated him. Later in 1653 Isaac's mother came back (when Barnabus Smith had died) and pulled Isaac Newton from his studies at King's School in order to learn the farming trade when he was 17. Unfortunately (for Isaac's mom), he had hated farming and wasn't good at it. But luckily the school's Head Master convinced his mom to send Newton back to King's School. With high grades, Young Isaac graduated from Kings School. Then he enrolled into Trinity College at Cambridge University in 1661. There he studied science, mathematics, and was influenced by Baconian and Cartesian who were philosophers. Soon after he had gotten his degree in Trinity College the school had shut down because of the Great Plague that was going around in August 1665.
Sense Cambridge had shut down; Isaac was forced to leave temporarily, so he returned to home in Woolsthorpe Manor. While Isaac Newton was studying books on Galileo (one of his inspirations) he saw an apple fall from a tree in his garden. After Newton saw that, he started to wonder why the apple fell and if it was the same type of energy or force that kept the moon in orbit around the earth. He decided to call this gravity and also decided that gravity affected every thing on earth and in the universe. When returning to Cambridge in 1667, Newton began to work on alchemy, optics and other things. He never really had published his finding but his friend Edmund Halley urged him to. So later he published "the Principia" which explained gravity and his 3 laws of motion. Isaac Newton three laws of motion explained how and why things move the way they do.
Newton math skills were very good from going to Cambridge so he helped create what people call calculus (which help's us measure curves and shapes). He was also very good at optics so he improved the telescope and made the "reflecting telescope". Newton did this by refracting light through a prism so the light would come out in a better image. When he had left Cambridge to go to London, he was appointed Master of the Mint there. Later Isaac Newton was knighted for being the royal mint in London and was known as "Sir Isaac Newton" for helping reform the English currency and catching counterfeiters. Not for his contributions to science.
Sir Isaac Newton was not a very friendly man but was very well respected by other people later in his life. He died in London on March 20, 1727 in his sleep. Sir Isaac Newton was a great scientist and is one of the reason's why our astronomy and science were it is today.
