Newton was soon sent back to King's School to finish his basic education. Newton failed miserably, as he found farming monotonous. Her plan was to make him a farmer and have him tend the farm. His mother pulled him out of school at age 12. Newton was enrolled at the King's School in Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire, where he lodged with a local apothecary and was introduced to the fascinating world of chemistry. She brought along her three small children from her second marriage. He anxiously obsessed over his published work, defending its merits with irrational behavior.Īt age 12, Newton was reunited with his mother after her second husband died. The experience left an indelible imprint on Newton, later manifesting itself as an acute sense of insecurity.
When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a well-to-do minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Newton with his maternal grandmother. A premature baby born tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive.
Newton was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac, who died three months before he was born. Using the "old" Julian calendar, Newton's birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642. Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. In 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne of England, making him Sir Isaac Newton.
In 1687, he published his most acclaimed work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which has been called the single most influential book on physics. Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution.
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