Напишите как читать этот текст! не перевод! а.как. the national portrait gallery opened in 1856. it contains over 8,000 original portraits and photographs. the gallery is "about history, not about art", which means that a picture gets into the gallery if it's a portrait of a famous british person. the artist's name and the quality of the picture aren't very important. isaac newton isaac newton was one of the most important scientists who ever lived. he was born on 25 december, 1642, in woolsthorpe. his father died before newton was born and his mother remarried. newton went to live with his grandmother. he went to a grammar school, where he wasn't a very good pupil. luckily one of the teachers spotted that he had a bright mind and recommended that he go to university. so newton went to trinity college, cambridge, where he was going to study law. one day he went to a fair and bought a book on mathematics. newton hadn't read any books on mathematics and physics before and got very interested in these subjects. soon he became one of the best students in the university. he spent most of his life in cambridge. newton became a world-famous physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher. he took facts and mathematical theories and explained them. he formulated laws of universal gravitation and motion that explain how objects move on the earth and in the sky. he made discoveries in optics and built the first reflecting telescope. he invented an area of mathematics called calculus and wrote a lot of books. 80 ! !
