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For the American agriculturalist, see Isaac Newton (agriculturalist).

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

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 (NS 4 January ), "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 stepfather and did not wa