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was born prematurely, on Christmas day 1642, in a small English town called Woolsthorpe. His father was a farmer, but died shortly after Isaac was born. Isaac's mother remarried 3 years later, but his stepfather died when Isaac was 14. Newton was sent to school at the age of 12, at the King's School, near Grantham. At fir ....

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.... so they would not be torn off. His mother came looking for him, half an hour later, to see what was taking him so long. She looked at the barn, and saw the doors were blown right off the hinges. She found Isaac jumping, again and again, from an open window. He would measure the length of the jump, and measure the force of the wind. Soon she realized that Newton was not cut out for farmwork, and sent him back to King's School. He graduated in 1661. When he was eighteen, he went to Trinity College. The ....