Isaac Newton was born to an illiterate farmer couple but when his parents wanted him to take over the farm, he purposely failed miserably. One of his teachers recognized his academic talent and worked to get him ready for admission to Cambridge. He was accepted, but didn't get very good grades because he wasn't interested in learning Latin, Greek, and religion. Then a plague hit, and he went back home for two years to get away from the contagion. It was during these two years that he came up with the amazing scientific ideas that he would work out the rest of his life. He was not very easy to get along with and mostly worked as a loner, but his scientific ideas have been the foundation of macro physics ever since.
I read this book because I was considering including it in a science kit about optics. He was the person that figured out that white light is a combination of all the other light colors. There was a chapter about that, and I will probably use it. My main response to the book was that Isaac Newton was amazingly awesome! He excelled in so many different things. He was clearly aspie, but his intelligence was off the chart. People like him and Mozart, and DaVinci are always fascinating to me. Like the other books in this series, the writing is accessible and age appropriate. This is a good introduction to an amazing scientist for middle grade readers. (2014,112 p.)
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