He was a loner with only one friend, but he was stimulated by the distinguished mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, who recognized Newton's genius and did all he could to foster it. On his own he read Descartes, Pierre Gassendi, Galileo, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Kenelm Digby, Joseph Glanville, and Henry More. The main curriculum was the study of Aristotle, but early in 1664, as Newton's notebooks indicate, he began an intensive self-study of geometry, Copernican astronomy and optics. In June 1661 he was admitted to prestigious Trinity College as a lowly subsizar (a student required to do work-study). Hannah, after considerable persuasion by his teacher at Grantham, who had recognized Newton's intellectual gifts, allowed him to prepare for entrance to Cambridge University. In 1656, Newton's mother, on the death of her second husband, returned to Woolsthorpe and took her son out of school with the idea of making him a farmer. The young Newton seems to have been a quiet, not particularly bookish lad, but very ready with his hands he made sundials, model windmills, a water clock and a mechanical carriage, and flew kites with lanterns attached to their tails. He boarded during terms at the house of an apothecary from whom he may have derived his lifelong interest in chemistry. Newton began his schooling in neighbouring villages, and at ten was sent to the grammar school at Grantham, the nearest town of any size. When Newton was little more than two years old, his mother, Hannah (1610–1679), remarried, and his upbringing was taken over by his maternal grandmother. The Newtons were a well-to-do, upwardly mobile family of farmers, but had never had a prominent member. in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire his father died before his birth. Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642 - one year after Galileo died By 1700 his name became a byword for genius and the use of mathematical and mechanical models to explain the entire universe, and thus he was a central figure in the Enlightenment. Along the way he invented the reflecting telescope. He laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus and classical mechanics - often referred to as Newtonian mechanics - as well as celestial mechanics and modern optics. Sir Isaac Newton (Woolsthorpe 1642 - London 1727) is one of the giants in the history of mathematics, physics and astronomy. Timeline for key scientists in classical mechanics
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