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Essay / Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac...
Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthrope Manor in Lincolnshire, England, on January 4, 1643, to his mother Hanna Ayscough and his father Isaac Newton. Newton was the only son of a successful local farmer, who died just three months before his son was born. Newton was born prematurely and was extremely small and weak. When Newton was three years old, his mother Hanna had remarried and gone to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith. Hanna had left Newton in the care of her maternal grandmother Margery Ayscough. At the age of twelve, Newton had been reunited with her mother and half-siblings after the death of her second husband. Newton was educated at the King's School in the market town of Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. Newton studied Latin and Greek but not mathematics because it was not one of the traditional subjects. Newton's mother had taken Isaac out of school in hopes of making him a farmer so he could take care of the farm. Newton hated that agriculture was not good at it. Soon, Newton had returned to the King's School thanks to Henry Stokes, a master of the King's School, who persuaded...