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Isaac Newton's Accomplishments

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Isaac Newton was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and a theologian in the seventeenth century. He was born on Christmas day, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, England. He did poorly in school as a kid, and even dropped out for a while. But when he was nineteen, he decided to go back to school, and attended Trinity College until graduating four years later. Five years after that, England was at war and there was a terrible plague spreading. Newton was once again attending school at the time, but his school temporarily shut down due to the plague. This gave him lots of free time and during the eighteen months that his school was shut down, Isaac Newton made a handful of incredible discoveries.
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