Editing Woolsthorpe Manor (section)

=== Isaac Newton ===
Sir Isaac Newton was born in the house on Christmas Day 1642 ([[Old Style and New Style dates|N.S.]] 4 January 1643) and was baptised on New Year's Day (11 January) in the nearby parish church of [[Colsterworth#Religion|St John the Baptist, Colsterworth]]. At the age of three his widowed mother Hannah remarried and moved to [[North Witham]] a mile and a half away leaving Isaac to be raised by his grandparents, returning to Woolsthorpe after she was widowed a second time seven years later. When Newton was twelve he was sent to [[The King's School, Grantham|The King's School]] in [[Grantham]] and later worked with the local apothecary. He returned briefly at the age of 17; however, unsuited to and uninterested in a life of professional [[Animal husbandry|husbandry]], he soon returned to Grantham and in 1661 at the age of 18 left Lincolnshire for [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] in [[Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Woolsthorpe Manor History|url= https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/woolsthorpe-manor/history-of-woolsthorpe-manor |publisher=National Trust |access-date=11 October 2024}}</ref>

Newton returned to Woolsthorpe in 1666 when [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] closed due to the [[Great Plague of London|plague]], and performed many of his most famous experiments there, most notably his work on [[light]] and [[optics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Woolsthorpe Manor – Year of Wonders 1665–1667 |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor/features/year-of-wonders |publisher=National Trust |access-date=19 June 2020}}</ref> This is also said to be the site where Newton, observing an [[Isaac Newton's apple tree|apple fall from a tree]], was inspired to formulate his [[law of universal gravitation]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}