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          This page is about the scientist and mathematician. For the American agriculturalist, see Isaac Newton (agriculturalist).

          Sir Isaac NewtonFRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.

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          6. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.

          Early life

          Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643), "an hour or two after midnight", at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire.

          His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.

          When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith. Newton's maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough (née Blythe), took care of him.

          Newton disliked his stepfath