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Sir Isaac Newton was born Christmas day in 1642. He was born to Hanna and Isaac Newton. His father died three months before Newton was born leaving him fatherless. Then at three, his mother placed him to live with his grandmother so that she could go and remarry and start a new life with a wealthy rector. After her second husband died, Newton was taken out of school and made into a farmer, which is not something he was very good at. He failed at this and the went back to school and prepared to go to Trinity college, Cambridge. It is here where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1665. on July 7,1668, Newton is granted his Master’s degree at Cambridge. Newton had many accomplishments throughout his life and eventually dies on March 20,1727. On of Newton’s most famous accomplishments were his laws of motion. Newton’s first law of motion simply states that, “An object in motion will stay in motion in a straight line, and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” We feel Newton’s first law every day, but we do not feel them because of the other