Ezra Jack Keats broke the color barrier in childrenâs literature with the mainstream success of The Snowy Day, in 1962. He believed that all children should be able to see themselves in books they love. Read more about Ezra Jack Keats.
Newton's Life. In 1642, the year Galileo died, Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on Christmas Day. His father had died three months earlier, and baby Isaac, very premature, was also not expected to survive. It was said he could be fitted into a quart pot.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS (/ËnjuËtÉn/; 25 December 1642 â 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (described in his own day as a natural philosopher) who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.