Topic > Essay on Isaac Newton - 596

Sir Isaac Newton, born on 25 December 1642 in Woolsthorpe near Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England, and died on 20 March 1727, is considered one of, if not the most influential mathematician and physicist in all times and was a huge figure who played an important role in the scientific revolution. Sir Newton was born 3 months after the death of his father (a profitable farmer), also named Isaac Newton, followed by his mother who remarried when he was 3 to a stepfather whom Sir Newton gravely detested, so much so that in his list of confessed sins up to the age of 19; “Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house on them.” Sir Newton's great brain remained unused between the ages of 12 and 17 where at “The Kings School, Grantham” he learned Latin but not the mathematics for which we all recognize him today. He was eventually removed from the school by his mother who attempted to make Sir Newton become a farmer like his father before he became master of "The Kings School", Henry tries to persuade Sir Newton's mother to allow Sir Newton to. ...