INFLUENTIAL SCIENTISTS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
INFLUENTIAL SCIENTISTS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND ISAAC NEWTON Early Life and Family Background Born on January 4, 1643, in the quiet village of Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton entered the world during a period of immense turmoil and change. His father, a farmer also named Isaac, had passed away just three months before Newton's birth, leaving his mother, Hannah Ayscough, to raise him under difficult circumstances. From early on, Isaac was seen as a frail child, and family expectations for him were modest at best. When his mother remarried and left him in the care of his grandmother, young Isaac's sense of abandonment perhaps sowed the seeds of his famously intense independence and introversion. Education and Formative Years Newton’s educational journey began at local grammar schools, where he was known to be a quiet yet curious child. His early interests lay not in mathematics or science but in crafting small inventions—windmills, sundials, and other simple machines that s...