Isaac Newton was a very intelligent man. He was a skilled physicist, astronomer, alchemist and mathematician. He is widely known as “the most important figure of the scientific revolution”. (Baigrie, Brain S. 2001) When Isaac Newton was a physicist he formulated the three fundamental laws of motion. Those laws helped lead him in the right direction to develop a universal law of gravity. He was the first to discover that color is a property of light and that colors are visible in the spectrum or rainbow. Growing upIsaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England. Three months before Isaac was born, his father died. His mother and father's names were Hannah Ayscough and Isaac Newton Sr. Isaac was born prematurely with little to no chance of survival. When Isaac was only two or three years old, his mother remarried a minister named Barnabas Smith. Newton's mother moved in with him. Hannah left young Isaac with his maternal grandmother. This experience left Isaac with an acute sense of insecurity. When Isaac was a young boy, he attended King's School (a local school) in Greatham, a town in Lincolnshire, where he showed an early interest in mechanical devices. Isaac made model clocks and lanterns, he even built an exact model of a mill powered by a mouse. When Isaac was 12, his mother's second husband died and she returned home. When his mother returned, she brought with her three small children from her second marriage. Isaac's mother wanted him to become a farmer and manage the family farm. Isaac had no interest in taking care of the family farm, and at the urging of his uncle and school teacher, Isaac did not start a farm or manage the family farm. What ended up in middle paper in mystical and religious beliefs was what influenced Newton's early scientific works. Newton served continuously as president of the Royal Society and director of the mint until his final days. In March 1727, Newton was eighty years old, fell ill, had pains in his abdomen, and became unconscious. The next day, March 31, 1727, Isaac Newton died. Newton had no children nor was he ever married. I guess you could say he let his work get the best of him. Newton was one of the best scientists who ever lived and still, hundreds of years later, children are learning about him. Isaac Newton changed the world and without him we would never have learned the laws of motion, gravity or even that light is made up of more than one color. Newton has answered all our questions over the years and if it weren't for him we would see life in a completely different way.