Early Years
While Newton attended Cambridge in his early years, a certain event was happening. This was the scientific revolution, and this event caused Newton's scientific curiosity to grow. During his first three years, he not only studied the standard curriculum, but he also studied the philosophers of his era during his spare time. This caused him to graduate with no honors, due to his less then average school performance. However, he was given four years of full financial support for future studies, but then the great pluage hit, causing the school to close.
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OccupationsThroughout his years of life, Isaac had acquired many accolades due to his various occupations. For instance, and the age of 12 he was lodging with an apothecary while he attended school, which introduced him to the world of chemistry. After this, he attended Cambridge, which fed into his facination to science, leading to him becoming a scientist, chemist, physicist, and astronomer. He was also quite the mathematician later in his life.
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ChildhoodIssac was born in Woolsthorpe, England, on January 4, 1643. He was a premature baby of a successful farmer, also Named Isaac Newton, and his mother's name was Hannah Ayscough Newton. His father died three months before he was born. When Hannah remarried, she left Isaac with his maternal grandmother at the tender age of 3. They reunited when he was 12, at which point she tried to make him into a farmer, which he was terrible at.
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Editors, Biography.com. "Isaac Newton." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 23 May 2016.