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Moving Into The 17th Century: The Intelligent Isaac Newton

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Moving onto the 17th century, we will now be talking about the intelligent Isaac Newton. Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Lincolnshire being a county in east central England. His farther passed away before he was born. Newton has been spending most of his early life with his grandmother, attending King’s School in Grantham. However, in 1661 he attended the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. At Cambridge, he studied a classical curriculum. And he was fascinated with the works of modern philosophers. An example being René Descartes, René is a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist and was born on the 31 March 1596. However, when the great plague ripped through Cambridge in 1665, Newton

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