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Sir Isaac Newton

            Sir Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth. Many researchers believed he suffered from a form of autism. At the age of nineteen he went to the University of Cambridge. He left after the first year to return home to help his mother, who was widowed for the second time. The next year he was admitted into the Trinity College, Cambridge.

Trinity College’s teachings were based on those of Aristotle, but Newton preferred to read the more modern philosophers such as Descartes and astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler.

Sir Isaac Newton
He pursued many occupations such as, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist.  He is most famous for his description of universal gravitation and the three laws of motion. The three laws will be explained in the following pages.