The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard Westfall
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, during the English Civil War. His father, a prosperous farmer, died three months before his birth, leaving his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, to raise him. When Newton was three, his mother remarried and moved away, placing him in his maternal grandmother’s care. This...
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