Unorthodox Look At The Life Of Sir Isaac Newton

5 Pages 1155 Words

The Man Who Was Sir Isaac Newton


When the name Sir Isaac Newton is mentioned today, many people think, “Hey that’s that guy who had an apple fall on his head.” Little do they know that Sir Isaac Newton’s ingenious discoveries are responsible for what everyone perceives as common knowledge these days.
Newton was born on what was then Christmas Day in 1642. Today this date would be January 4th due to the fact that England used a different calendar back then. Unlike the man that would become his son, Isaac’s father was a rather uneducated person. It was said that he could not even write his own name. Nonetheless, the Newton’s were a rather wealthy farming family. Alas, all seemingly good things have a dark side. Before Isaac was even born, his father pasted away.
When Isaac was still a toddler, his harlot of a mother remarried and sent him away to his grandmother to be treated as an orphan. Isaac was a very lonely child. He probably got beat up for being a nerd. Isaac decided that he had no choice but to turn to books for love.
Isaac entered college as a sizar. This was a type of scholarship in which the sizar had to be the personal servant to another student. The exact reason why such a wealthy child had to serve others is not known. At college, Newton had to study the works of many great scholars. He compiled his own thoughts about their works in a memorandum he called “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae.”
Newton first entered the field of math when he bought an astrology book at a fair.
He in turn found that the book was a little too advanced for him, so he decided to start out slowly. Yet when he tried a different book, it was way too easy. So he went back to the astrology book and finally conquered it.
His studies continued along with his ideas. He came up with many calculus equations before Leibniz claimed that he “officially” discovered it. They had this big fight th...