• Yeather@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Also, Newton was not born with the connection, he made them in Grantham. He had a very strained relationship with his mother and step father and was raised by his grandmother.

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      I was talking about his uncle that gave him an in for University

      His uncle the Reverend William Ayscough, who had studied at Cambridge, recommended him to the university.

      But I just read that shit off wikipedia so, I’m no scholar. 🤷