The great English scientist known to every schoolchild was born on December 24, 1642, according to the old style, or January 4, 1643, according to the current Gregorian calendar. Isaac Newton, whose biography originates in the town of Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, was born so weak that they did not dare to baptize him for a long time. However, the boy survived and, despite poor he alth in childhood, managed to live to a ripe old age.
Childhood
Isaac's father died before he was born. Mother, Anna Ayskow, widowed early, remarried, having given birth to three more children from her new husband. She paid little attention to her eldest son. Newton, whose biography in his childhood seemed to be prosperous, suffered greatly from loneliness and lack of attention from his mother.
The boy was more cared for by his uncle, Anna Ayscoe's brother. As a child, Isaac was a reserved, silent child, with a tendencymake various technical crafts, such as a windmill and a sundial.
School years
In 1955, at the age of 12, Isaac Newton was sent to school. Shortly before this
his stepfather dies, and his mother inherits his fortune, immediately reissuing it to her eldest son. The school was in Grantham, and Newton lived with the local apothecary, Clark. During his studies, his outstanding abilities were revealed, but four years later his mother returned the 16-year-old boy home with the aim of entrusting him with the duties of managing the farm.
But farming was none of his business. Reading books, writing poetry, constructing complex mechanisms - this was the whole of Newton. It was at this moment that his biography determined its direction towards science. Schoolteacher Stokes, Uncle William, and Cambridge University Trinity College member Humphrey Babington worked together to continue teaching Isaac Newton.
Universities
In Cambridge, Newton's brief biography is as follows:
- 1661 - Admission to Trinity College at the University for free tuition as a "sizer" student.
- 1664 - Successfully passing exams and transferring to the next stage of education as a student-"schoolboy", which gave him the right to receive a scholarship and the opportunity to continue his studies.
At the same time, Newton, whose biography recorded a creative upsurge and the beginning of independent scientific activity, met IsaacBarrow, a new mathematics teacher who had a strong influence on the scientist's passion for mathematics.
In total, Trinity College was given a long period of life (30 years) of the great physicist and mathematician, but it was here that he made his first discoveries (binomial expansion for an arbitrary rational exponent and expansion of a function into an infinite series) and created, based on the teachings of Galileo, Descartes and Kepler, the universal system of the world.
Years of great achievements and glory
With the outbreak of the plague in 1665, classes at the college ceased, and Newton left for his estate in Woolsthorpe, where the most significant discoveries were made - optical experiments with the colors of the spectrum, the law of universal gravitation.
In 1667, the scientist returned to Trinity College, where he continued his research in the field of physics, mathematics, and optics. The telescope he created drew rave reviews from the Royal Society.
In 1705, Newton, whose photo can be found today in every textbook, was the first to be awarded the title of knight precisely for scientific achievements. The number of discoveries in various fields of science is very large. Monumental works in mathematics, fundamentals of mechanics, in the field of astronomy, optics, physics have turned scientists' ideas about the world upside down.
