Great AstronomersIsaac Newton was born on the 25th of December (old style), 1642, at Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire, about a half mile from Colsterworth, and eight miles south of Grantham. His father, Mr. Isaac Newton, had died a few months after his marriage to Harriet Ayscough, the daughter of Mr. James Ayscough, of Market Overton, in Rutlandshire. The little Isaac was at first so excessively frail and weakly that his life was despaired of. The watchful mother,