Today we will be...Finding out who Isaac Newton was and when he lived.

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Isaac Newton

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This is Isaac Newton. He is a famous scientist. We are going to be finding out what he did to make him so famous.

Have a look at this picture of Isaac Newton. Is he alive now or did he

live a long time ago?

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Isaac Newton lived hundreds of years ago. He lived in the time of the Stuart kings and queens.

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Isaac Newton born

He was born on 25th December 1642 (Christmas Day) and died on 20th March 1727. He was 84 years old when he died.

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This is Woolsthorpe Manor, the house Isaac grew up in.

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Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire. His father died before he was born and when he was four years old his mother re-married. Her

new husband didn’t want Isaac to live with them so his mother left him with his grandmother.

Photo attribution: Netean at en.wikipedia

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When her husband died, Isaac’s mother returned to Woolsthorpe along with Isaac’s new brothers and sisters. Isaac was 11 years old by this time.

When he was 12, Isaac went to the King’s School in

Grantham. He didn’t start off very well and didn’t pay much attention but he soon started to enjoy the school and went

on to do very well.

This pictures shows where Isaac Newton wrote his name on the windowsill at Grantham School!

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When he was 16, Isaac’s mother took him out of school so that he could take over the running of the family farm. However, Isaac didn’t want to be a farmer but instead wanted to go to university to carry on his education. Eventually,

Isaac’s mother agreed that he could go to university.

When he was 18, he went to Trinity College at Cambridge University. Even though his mother could have paid the

fees herself, she decided that Isaac would have work to pay his own way at

university. Once there, Isaac quickly became very interested in science.

Trinity College, Cambridge

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Let’s think back...

How long ago did Isaac Newton live?

What was his childhood like? Do you think it was happy?

What was his mother like?

Why do you think Isaac didn’t want to be a farmer?

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What do you think I might have done to make

me so famous?

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