Sir Isaac Newton led a very interesting life.

This genius came into this life in 1642

on Christmas day. Sadly, his father had passed away three months earlier. When Newton
was born, he wasn’t expected to live, but he pulled through and was baptized soon after.
His mother remarried to a very wealthy elderly clergyman and she left Newton with his
grandparents. He went eight years without his mother then she came back to him after his
step-father had died. Two years later, Newton was sent away to school and made few
friends. He also had little interest in his studies although he did enjoy books. One of his
favorites was a book about how things worked. He liked building kites and other
constructive activities. He eventually excelled in school and became the top of his class.
At the age of sixteen, his mother called him back home to help run the farm, but his
teachers eventually convinced her to let him stay. In 1616, Newton transferred to Trinity
College, Cambridge. He studied philosophy and was fascinated by Galileo’s ideas in
motion and gravity. Newton fell in love with mathematics and learned everything about it
from 1663 to 1664.
He knew he was better than everyone else so he was set apart. In 1664, he had a
BA graduate scholarship. After that, he worked alone at home for eighteen months
learning about the law of gravity. He returned to Cambridge in 1667 to show his first
paper-De Analysi yet he refused to get it published. The paper was based on the study of
light and color. He made a lot of experiments and observations. To test things out, he
used a prism reflecting light in a dark chamber. By doing that, he figured out that color
was the property of light, not the object. In 1671, the reflecting telescope reached society
thanks to Newton. He sent one to London and they were very pleased.
He finally published his paper but it got criticized because he was accused of copy
write so he refused to ever publish again in 1676. After nine years, he reemerged. He
became a professor of mathematics in an Anglican Church. Later, he was sent to resign as
post. In the years from 1670 to 1680, he worked on nothing but religion. He slept and ate
little. People thought him to be possessed. He learned about theology and wanted to
figure out the real meaning of ancient scripture. He searched for the spirit of nature.
He wrote a short paper titled Motion of Revolving Bodies based on his
discoveries in the early 1680s. People wanted him to write a book about it and pit it in the
records. He wrote Prinicpia in 1697 which contained the problems of the planets, the
three laws of motion, and described the structure of the universe. His publish was made
famous. Fame changed Newton’s personality. He enjoyed being famous and made more
friends while socializing. He formed an intellectual relationship with another male but
when the male had to leave in 1693, Newton had a nervous breakdown. He wrote two
insane letters, one to John Locke. He was never the same again as a result of his loss.
He was given a job at a British coin concept, which he made successful. But even
after his accomplishment at the mint, he was still unhappy. In 1699, he was promoted to a
Master and knighted by Queen Anne in 1695. In 1713, he published his 2nd edition of the
Principia. He published work on calculus in 1676. He lived his last years full of praise
and eventually died in 1727. He lived his live very successfully and made a huge impact
on the world. It wouldn’t be the same without him.