Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born in the year 1643. He was born too early and people thought he would die because he was so small. When he was home as a baby with his mum, his dad died.

His parents named him Lawrence Isaac Newton James but people called him Isaac, his mum wanted him to be a farmer but he had other ideas like being a scientist. He lived in London with his beloved family.

He went to Trinity college in Cambridge a lovely peaceful and wonderful place to live in. When he left college he became an inventor,scientist and a mathematician. He was always busy inventing things. Isaac became famous and well known for discovering gravity. Gravity is a force that holds us down to the ground. Isaac discoverd gravity when he saw an apple falling downwards instead of up. He was as happy as being on cloud nine when he became famous!

Isaac got knighted by Queen Anne in the year 1726 and was as happy as being on a flying carpet. He also invented the catflap and the reflecting telascope. He became an M.P (Member of Parliament). He only said one thing there which was "Would you mind closing the window please?" He illustrated books, he never got married because he thought girls where useless!

Sir Isaac Newton died in 1726and he got buried in Westminster Abbey in the wonderful city of London. We will remember Sir Isaac Newton as the person who discovered gravity and the catflap inventor.

By Lilly Rees