Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known. And this summer holidays, the National Trust are inviting visitors to his childhood home in Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire to try out exciting experiments inspired by the great thinker himself! 

Unlock your curiosity — just like Isaac!

Visitors will be treated to a brand-new trail of interactive, family-friendly experiments, all modelled after Isaac’s own discoveries. There’s a pendulum, a telescope, Newton’s Cradles (a swinging, metal device that showcases the power of momentum), and awesome air-powered rockets! Plus, there are tons of other hands-on experiments in Woolsthorpe Manor’s amazing Science Centre. 

Excitingly, many of the experiments can also be recreated at home, all using inexpensive items you might have lying around your house.

Astronaut Tim Peake visited Woolsthorpe Manor to lauch the Summer of Discovery programme and help a group of Year 5s launch their very own paper rockets.

Who exactly was Sir Isaac Newton?

Sir Isaac Newton lived from 1642 to 1727. Some of his greatest achievements included: the invention of calculus (a form of maths used to this day in physics, engineering, medicine and more), the study of optics (how we see things and how light behaves), and the discovery of gravity (an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other). Without him, the world — and our understanding of it — would be very different!   

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Famously, watching an apple fall from a tree helped Isaac to discover gravity.

A curious soul

It’s easy to think of Isaac as a serious and accomplished grey-haired old man. But he wasn’t always that way! As a kid, Isaac was often absent minded, kept forgetting to do his chores, worried his mum and fought with his siblings. He just couldn’t help getting into trouble — from drawing on the walls and staring at the sky, to doing dangerous experiments.

However, it was that very curiosity about the way the world worked that saw this troublesome young boy grow up into someone who is still talked about hundreds of years later. 

Perhaps you could be the next Isaac Newton? All it takes is a little something to spark your curiosity. By inviting you down to their Summer of Discovery, the National Trust hope to encourage you to keep on asking the most important question in science… ‘WHY?’

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