Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 in the manor house in Woolsthorpe, three months after his father's death. He was so tiny that no one expected him to survive. When Newton was three years old, his mother remarried, which led to three more children, and deprived Isaac of his mother. His stepfather, Mr. Smith, was a reverend and would not take the three-year-old Newton along with his mother, so he was left at Woolsthorpe …showed first 75 words of 1565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1565 total…rk on a second edition of Principia, and he also published a second edition of Opticks. After he moved to London, he did nothing but reshuffle ideas that he had had in Cambridge. As he became older he seemed concerned with leaving his image behind. He had many portraits painted. As he began to die he began to distribute his wealth to his family. After a series of debilitating illnesses he died on March 19th, 1727.