Editing Isaac Barrow (section)

=== Early career ===
Isaac went to school first at [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]] (where he was so turbulent and pugnacious that his father was heard to pray that if it pleased God to take any of his children he could best spare Isaac), and subsequently to [[Felsted School]], where he settled and learned under the brilliant [[puritan]] Headmaster Martin Holbeach who ten years previously had educated [[John Wallis]].<ref>{{cite book |first=M. R. |last=Craze |title=A History of Felsted School, 1564–1947 |publisher=Cowell |year=1955 }}</ref> Having learnt Greek, Hebrew, Latin and logic at Felsted, in preparation for university studies,<ref>{{cite web |first1=J. J. |last1=O'Connor |first2=E. F. |last2=Robertson |work=School of Mathematics and Statistics [[University of St Andrews]] |url=http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Barrow.html |title=gap-system |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226042236/http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Barrow.html |archive-date=26 December 2010 }}</ref> he continued his education at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]; he enrolled there because of an offer of support from an unspecified member of the [[Walpole family]], "an offer that was perhaps prompted by the Walpoles' sympathy for Barrow's adherence to the [[Royalist]] cause."<ref>{{cite book |first=Mordechai |last=Feingold |title=Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1990 |page=256 |isbn=9780521306942 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jR1rxaob2PUC&pg=PA256 }}</ref> His uncle and namesake [[Isaac Barrow (bishop)|Isaac Barrow]], afterwards [[Bishop of St Asaph]], was a Fellow of [[Peterhouse, Cambridge|Peterhouse]].  He took to hard study, distinguishing himself in classics and mathematics; after taking his degree in 1648, he was elected to a fellowship in 1649.<ref>{{acad|id=BRW643I|name=Barrow, Isaac}}</ref> Barrow received an MA from Cambridge in 1652 as a student of [[James Duport]]; he then resided for a few years in college, and became candidate for the Greek Professorship at Cambridge, but in 1655 having refused to sign the [[Engagement controversy|Engagement to uphold the Commonwealth]], he obtained travel grants to go abroad.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Portrait of Isaac Newton |url=https://archive.org/details/portraitofisaacn00manu |url-access=registration |first=Frank E. |last=Manuel |year=1968 |publisher=Belknap Press, MA |page=[https://archive.org/details/portraitofisaacn00manu/page/92 92] }}</ref>

==== Travel ====
He spent the next four years traveling across France, Italy, and Turkey.  In Turkey he lived in Izmir and studied in Istanbul (then called Smyrna and Constantinople), and after many adventures returned to England in 1659. He was known for his courageousness. Particularly noted is the occasion of his having saved the ship he was upon, by the merits of his own prowess, from capture by [[pirate]]s. He is described as "low in stature, lean, and of a pale complexion," slovenly in his dress, and having a committed and long-standing habit of tobacco use (an ''[[Wikt:inveterate|inveterate]] smoker''). In respect to his courtly activities his aptitude to wit earned him favour with [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], and the respect of his fellow courtiers. In his writings one might find accordingly, a sustained and somewhat stately eloquence. He was an altogether impressive personage of the time, having lived a blameless life in which he exercised his conduct with due care and conscientiousness.<ref>D.R. Wilkins –  [[Trinity College, Dublin]] [http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Barrow/RouseBall/RB_Barrow.html School of Mathematics]. Retrieved 1 February 2012</ref>