Sir Isaac Newton and his Dark Secrets!

A lot of us know who is Isaac Newton. Way back when we were kids, our teachers have taught us the magnificent thing that this scientist has done in this world. Yes, he has a lot of achievements, but who really is Isaac Newton. Let's take a closer look of his life.

• Famous Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer
• Nationality: British
• Birth Date: 12/25/1642 AD
• Born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
• Died at 84 years old
• Died on 3/20/1727 AD
• Died in Kensington
• Capricorn
• Father: Isaac Newton Sr.
• Mother: Hannah Ayscough
• Married to none. 
• Education: Trinity College, Cambridge (1668), Trinity College, Cambridge (1661 – 1665), The King's School, Grantham (1661)

Here are some quick facts that you probably do not know about Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the same year that Galileo Galilei died.

The rivalry between Newton and Robert Hooke is well known and according to some sources,

the hatred continued even after Hooke’s death and Newton had all portraits of Hooke destroyed.

One of Newton’s teeth was sold in 1816 at an auction for approximately $3,600.

It was Newton who first predicted that Jews will take back Israel and the prediction turned out to

be absolutely correct!

The story that a falling apple inspired Newton to think about gravitational pull was first recorded

by the French writer Voltaire.

When Newton was a young boy, his mother tried to pressurize him to become a farmer. However

he was so bad at farming that she reluctantly sent him to college to study.

He was obsessed with the Bible and had calculated the date of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ as

April 3, 33 A.D. and the earliest date of the Apocalypse as 2060 A.D.

He had a secret interest in alchemy and desired to procure the legendary Philosopher’s Stone—

he even wrote a 28 page treatise on the fabled stone.

A reclusive and secretive person, Isaac Newton has often been associated with various secret

societies and fraternal orders throughout history.

Newton was eccentric by nature and once jammed a darning needle around the side of his eye. 

He was experimenting with properties of light and used himself as a guinea pig in order to find out whether the eyes were responsible for collecting light or creating it.

The trivia above is real. There are a lot of funny memes in the web regarding Newton being a virgin when he died. Now, below is a video that tells us other dark secrets of Sir Isaac Newton. I know you are excited to know more about the things our school didn't taught us so watch it. Leave your comments below.

 
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