Sir Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643. At the age of three, he was taken under the care of his grandmother. Newton, however, was never a very good student, so when he was a teenager, his mother pulled him from school to work on the farm to train him as a successful farmer. She saw that he very clever and that he had more important talents than farming, so she sent him to Cambridge University at …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…them. However, his claims were later ruled false by historians. However by 1693, Newton was beginning to have some emotional problems. Though he recovered, he was no longer had the creativity of his past. In 1703, he become the head of the Royal Society, and used this position to attack Leibniz for plagiarism. Newton led a quiet life until his death in 1727, having been the greatest mathematician, astronomer, and scientist of his life, and perhaps of history.