Newton

       Sir Isaac Newton was born December 25 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. His father died when he was just and infant and his mother remarried. She sent Newton away to be raised by his grandmother. Because of his hatred for his stepfather and his separation from his mother, he had an unhappy childhood. He would have emotional breakdowns and he would be very violent and aggressive against friends. In 1653, he was taken out of school to become a farmer, however it didn't work out so he went back to school In 1661, he went to Trinity College in Cambridge where he was interested in Mathematics, Optics, Physics, and Astronomy.

        Newton privately studied major figures of the scientific revolution, "René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Gassendi". He studied Euclid, mastered Descartes Geometrie, and spent his time to math and optics to figure out infinitesimal calculus. Later, he started to think about gravity. In 1667, Newton came back to Cambridge after a two year plague and became a professor or Mathematics. He created the first reflecting telescope and he was accepted into the Royal Society. He conducted experiments with light and figured out that there was colors like in a rainbow, and he established the study of modern optics. In 1704, he published the book The Optics and his studies of optics and light.

      In 1687, Newton published his book, Principia, it became one of the greatest works created by him. It talked about how gravity applies to all objects in all parts of the universe, which also includes his three laws of motion. In 1689, He was elected as one of the members in the parliament of Cambridge University. In 1696, he was appointed warden of the Royal Mint in London. He became president of the Royal Society in 1703, and he was knight in 1705. On March 31 1727, Sir Isaac Newton died and was buried in Westminster Abby.