what school did sir isaac newton go to?
The King's School, Grantham Trinity College, Cambridge
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 Although he showed an early inclination toward science , he chose instead to study history . A scholarship enabled his entry into Fitzwilliam College , Cambridge , where he gained a first , a PhD and a fellowship . 

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 From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen , Newton was educated at The King 's School , Grantham which taught Latin and Greek but no mathematics . He was removed from school , and by October 1659 , he was to be found at Woolsthorpe @-@ by @-@ Colsterworth , where his mother , widowed for a second time , attempted to make a farmer of him . Newton hated farming . Henry Stokes , master at the King 's School , persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education . Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully , he became the top @-@ ranked student , distinguishing himself mainly by building sundials and models of windmills . 

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 As a youth , Newton began a pattern of coming very close to death , examining his relationship with God , then relapsing into bad habits . As a sailor , he denounced his faith after being influenced by a shipmate who discussed Characteristics of Men , Manners , Opinions , Times , a book by the Third Earl of Shaftesbury , with him . In a series of letters he later wrote , " Like an unwary sailor who quits his port just before a rising storm , I renounced the hopes and comforts of the Gospel at the very time when every other comfort was about to fail me . " His disobedience caused him to be pressed into the Royal Navy , and he took advantage of opportunities to overstay his leave and finally deserted to visit Mary " Polly " Catlett , a family friend with whom he had fallen in love . After enduring humiliation for deserting , he managed to get himself traded to a slave ship where he began a career in slave trading . 

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 In April 1667 , he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as a fellow of Trinity . Fellows were required to become ordained priests , although this was not enforced in the restoration years and an assertion of conformity to the Church of England was sufficient . However , by 1675 the issue could not be avoided and by then his unconventional views stood in the way . Nevertheless , Newton managed to avoid it by means of a special permission from Charles II ( see " Middle years " section below ) . 

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 In June 1661 , he was admitted to Trinity College , Cambridge , on the recommendation of his uncle Rev William Ayscough . He started as a subsizar — paying his way by performing valet 's duties — until he was awarded a scholarship in 1664 , which guaranteed him four more years until he would get his M.A. At that time , the college 's teachings were based on those of Aristotle , whom Newton supplemented with modern philosophers such as Descartes , and astronomers such as Galileo and Thomas Street , through whom he learned of Kepler 's work . He set down in his notebook a series of ' Quaestiones ' about mechanical philosophy as he found it . In 1665 , he discovered the generalised binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that later became calculus . Soon after Newton had obtained his B.A. degree in August 1665 , the university temporarily closed as a precaution against the Great Plague . Although he had been undistinguished as a Cambridge student , Newton 's private studies at his home in Woolsthorpe over the subsequent two years saw the development of his theories on calculus , optics , and the law of gravitation . 
