Isaac Newton was a scientist. He lived long ago in England.
He was born in a house at Woolsthorpe. His family were farmers.
Newton went to Trinity College at Cambridge University.
A sickness called the plague closed the school. Newton went home.
He shone sunlight through a glass prism.
He saw a band of colors.
White light has all the colors of the rainbow. Newton showed this.
He told a story about watching an apple fall.
He said everything pulls on everything else. That pull is gravity.
Newton lived to be 84 years old. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Words to know
- prism: a glass wedge
- plague: a bad sickness
- gravity: a pull
- scientist: a finder-outer
