Isaac Newton

The great English scientist Isaac Newton was born in the little village of Woolthorpe, not far from the old university town of Cambridge, on December 25, 1642. His father, a farmer, died before his son’s birth. Little Isaac was left to the care of his mother, uncle and grandmother who sent him to school.
In his early years young Isaac shone more as one who could make things with his hands than a scholar. His neighbors watched him making various things and thought ho would probably become a well-known clock maker. There was ground for thinking thus became he had already made a clock of a kind which his neighbors had never heard of before. It worked by water. Besides the water-clock, Isaac also made a sundial. His grandmother was never at a loss to know the hour; for the water-clock could tell it in the house, and the sundial outside. It is said that the sundial is still at Woolthorpe, on a wall of the house where Newton lived.
When he grew older, however, he took a considerable interest in mathematics.
Though Isaac Newton never lost his manual skill his ability as a mathematician and a physicist was the most important in his life. According to Newton himself, his first physical experiment was carried out in 1658, when he was sixteen years old. Wishing to find out the strength of the wind during a storm, he jumped against and before the wind and by the length of his jump he could judge the strength of the wind. Thus, even in his boyish sports, he was searching out the secrets of nature and could find out difficult things in simple ways. His brain was always busy observing different phenomena of nature.
Not far from his grandmother’s home there was a windmill. When the windmill...

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