![]() These however do not appear to be any sufficient reasons for his never marrying, if he had had the inclination to do so. “Newton never married and it has been said ‘perhaps he never had leisure to think of it that being immersed in profound studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an enjoyment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of a companion at home.’. Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Samuel Pepys, September 1693 He described how he was affected in a letter to Pepys “I am extremely troubled at the embroilment I am in, and have neither ate nor slept well this twelve month, nor have my farther consistency of mind.” Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to John Locke “Sir Being of opinion that you endeavoured to embroil me with woemen & by other means I was so much affected with it as that when one told me you were sickly & would not live I answered twere better if you were dead.” Here are two excerpts from the letters in question: Newton had had a nervous breakdown/depressive episode between the incident and his writing to Pepys and Locke, which I argue could have been triggered because of an intense sexual repulsion. Newton ultimately apologized for essentially telling the then seriously ill Locke to fuck off die, but the sentiment remained. Voltaire (in a letter, written shortly after Newton’s death, published in 1894)Īn unknown incident involving seemingly a sexual or romantic interaction (or attempted one) with a woman pushed on him by Samuel Pepys and John Locke left Newton so shaken he could not continue his friendship with them. “Sir Isaac, during the long course of years he enjoyed, was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women-a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his last moments” Probable orientation: Aroace (argument could be made for gay ace) Indeed until Einstein he was the most important figure in that last. Newton wrote on and was key to our modern understanding everything from mathematics to optics to physics. In De motu corporum in gyrum (1684) (English translation 1974) Newton proved Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion, cementing them as scientific laws. Opticks from 1704 is another one of his great works, this one on the nature of light. His work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (English translation from 1846) is widely considered one of the most important in physics and applied mathematics and laid the foundations for the advancements of the Industrial Revolution. Formulated universal gravitation, the laws of motion, the law of cooling, calculated the speed of sound, along with countless other imperative contributions to science and math. ![]() Helped to develop calculus, classical mechanics, optics, among other fields. In his time he was called a “Natural Philosopher,” but he was a bit of a polymath. Best known as the guy who got hit in the head with an apple and discovered gravity*, but he is one of the most important scientific figures in the Age of Reason/scientific revolution. ![]()
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