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His father, a farmer who was also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before his birth. His mother remarried when Isaac was three years old and left young Isaac in the care of his grandparents. Isaac attended school where he was an adequate student.
Historians say there is likely no more than a grain of truth to the story. Sir Isaac Newton was born, premature and tiny, in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father, wealthy but uneducated, died before Newton was born, and he ended up being raised by his grandmother after his mother remarried. Itâs said he didnât excel at school, but he ended up studying law at Trinity College Cambridge, part of Cambridge University.