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Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch of Sir Isaac Newton As the following Biographical Sketch has been written with especial reference to the Inauguration of the Statue of Sir Isaac Newton, at Grantham, on Tuesday the 21'st of September, 1858, it will form an appropriate introduction to our pages if we give a brief account of how that statue originated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.