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.
Considered one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton formulated theories about motion, gravity and calculus, among a range of other topics. The son of an illiterate farmer, Newton also was a temperamental loner and often secretive about his work. Find out more about this fascinating Englishman, from his long-term interest in alchemy to the job he held that involved sending people to the gallows to the cause of one of his most bitter rivalries.