Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities

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PREFACE THE BRILLIANT AND BIZARRE ISAAC NEWTON SS SAAC NEWTON HATED to count sheep every day every week over and over again In his tiny village of Woolsthorpe England in the 1650s losing your sheep meant losing your way of making a living But Isaac didn't care Raising sheep was boring He'd rather read one of the books lining the shelves in the house where he lived with his mother and grandparents He knew he was different He didn't feel like the other boys who were growing up to become farmers in Woolsthorpe Isaac Newton saw things in a unique way Isaac saw patterns He saw the rhythm of every day life sunrise to sunset spring to summer to autumn to winter He saw patterns as the sun moon and stars steadily marched overhead He couldn't touch anything up there but still he wondered whether heavenly bodies moved according to the same rules that worked down