"The nature and it's laws was hidden in the dark night God said, let Newton araise, and there was light." Alexander Pope. Biography Childhood Newton was born December 25th 1642, on a farm in the little village Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire, England. He was named after his father Isaac Newton who died 3 months earlier. The father had been a wealthy farmer, who couldn't even write he's own name. He was considered a lazy, arrogant and characterless man. …showed first 75 words of 982 total…

…showed last 75 words of 982 total…much succes that he was promoted to national bank president. He continued with this job and in 1703 he was elected president of The Royal Society. Newton lived the rest of his life in London. He didn't come up with new theories, instead he lived a modest and simple live. He died on Marts 20th 1727, 84 years old. Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey and several noblemen and a huge crowd followed his chest to the graveyard.