Isaac Newton was a preterm Miracle baby

Newton was born on Christmas day, according to the Julian calendar. Isaac Newton was born in the English village of Woolsthorpe, in the county of Lincolnshire. There is some debate over his birth date because England was still using the old Julian calendar at the time of his birth and had not yet embraced the new Gregorian calendar. Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642, according to the Julian calendar, and on January 4th, 1643, according to the current calendar. Newton is claimed to have been born the year Galileo died, the man whose work formed the groundwork for several of Newton's theories. This is not the case, as Galileo died in 1641 and Newton was born in 1642 on the Julian calendar, however, on the Gregorian calendar, Galileo died in 1642, and Newton was born in 1643. This commonly quoted "truth" becomes true only when the Gregorian calendar is used to calculate Galileo's death year and the Julian calendar is used to calculate Newton's birth date.

Newton was born prematurely, and at the time of his birth, he was so little that some feared he would not survive. He could have fit inside a quart mug (1.1 liters) with enough to spare, according to his mother Hannah Ayscough. Isaac Newton, Sr., Newton's father, died three months before Newton was born. Newton's mother remarried and moved in with her new husband when he was three years old, leaving him in the care of his maternal grandmother. Newton was a hater of his stepfather. "Threatening my father and mother to burn them and the house over them," he recorded as one of his faults till he was 19 years old. His mother later returned after being widowed for the second time. Newton, who was 17 at the time, was supposed to handle the family farm, but he despised it, and his schoolmaster convinced his mother to send him back to school.