Where did isaac newton live

Newton's Life

In 1642, the year Galileo died, Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on Christmas Day.

His father had died three months earlier, and baby Isaac, very premature, was also not expected to survive.

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It was said he could be fitted into a quart pot. When Isaac was three, his mother married a wealthy elderly clergyman from the next village, and went to live there, leaving Isaac behind with his grandmother. The clergyman died, and Isaac's mother came back, after eight years, bringing with her three small children.

Two years later, Newton went away to the Grammar School in Grantham, where he lodged with the local apothecary, and was fascinated by the chemicals.

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The plan was that at age seventeen he would come home and look after the farm. He turned out to be a total failure as a farmer.

His mother's brother, a clergyman who had been an undergrad