by
Sir David Brewster
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Sir Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, a hamlet in the parish of Colsterworth, in Lincolnshire, about six miles south of Grantham, on the 25th December, O. S., 1642, exactly one year after Galileo died, and was baptized at Colsterworth on the 1st January, 16423. His father, Mr. Isaac Newton, died...