by> Michael Fowler, Physics Dept., U.Va.
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. 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. 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.
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