Newton’s father had died before he was born. When Isaac was three, his mother left him with his grandmother and married a man from a nearby village. This turbulent start scarred Newton for life.

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the ... and developing the mathematics of calculus. Newton was born prematurely on December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, England, to a poor farming ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in England in 1643. He is best known as the scientist who first identified the effects of gravity. A popular story claims ...

The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public after its annual winter conservation work. He was born at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in 1642 and later returned ...

DOM:Alright then. DICK:There you are, gravity. SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Aaahh. DOM:'Newton was born in 1643, when the laws of nature and the universe were a big mystery. It was the early days of modern ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire on Christmas Day 1642, only son of Isaac, a farmer, and his wife Hannah (Ayscough). His father died before his birth ...