Sir isaac Newton

Young Isaac Newton's early life was marked by his father's death before his birth and his mother remarrying and leaving him with his grandmother. He was not initially a stellar student and was pulled from school to work on the family farm, but his intellectual talents were recognized, and he eventually attended Cambridge University in 1661. A plague outbreak forced him to return home in 1665, where he used the time to develop his groundbreaking theories on calculus, light, and gravity.  Early childhood Born in Woolsthorpe, England, on January 4, 1643 (December 25, 1642, Old Style). His father died three months before he was born. When he was three, his mother remarried and left him to be raised by his maternal grandmother. He was a solitary child with an early interest in mechanical devices and models.