Was newton gay

Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle_(novel) – which features Sir Isaac Newton as a major personality, assumes (or at least very, very strongly implies) that he was homosexual; it’s an significant plot point in his relations with some other male characters. This is something I’ve never before read about Newton. His Wikipedia bio – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton – doesn’t state it; OTOH, it does not bring up Newton every having been married. Newton is not listed on the “List of gay, queer woman or bisexual people” page – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay%2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people – neither in the “confirmed” nor “debated” section; and it does cover historical figures. Was Newton gay?

Cecil’s column on whether he died a virgin or not:http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_208.html)

Still, having thus fenced out the boundaries of the knowable, we can say that, with the doable exception of one teenage friendship (there is no write that it became physical), Isaac Newton apparently formed no romantic attachments during his 84 years of life. Further

Today I start a week-long mini-series on 3 lgbt scientists who worked on meteorology and climatology.

One scientist is most associated with the rainbow – or, more accurately, the spectrum – and that is Sir Isaac Newton. I place him in this mini-series because the spectrum and the rainbow are created in the same manner – by the splitting of light rays.

When it comes to listing historical lgbt people more often than not we are attempting to put modern labels onto people who were alive before such labels were invented. Were all Ancient Greek soldiers gay because they were expected to have regular sex and relationships with younger men? Did homosexuality exist before it was given that name? You could also demand if gravity existed before gave it a name? Yes it did, we just understood it differently.

It may aid to think of historical sexual orientation by using a phrase I encountered recently in reference to a scientist I’ll deal with in 3 days time, Alexander von Humboldt – “Queer refers not only to bisexual or homosexual men and women – it also includes vertical people whose sexuality nevertheless falls outside social norms of behaviou

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton by Kneller

Sir Isaac Newton(1642–1727) was an English scientist and mathematician, sometimes considered the greatest scientist who ever lived.

Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in Lincolnshire. He went to school at Grantham, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1661. In 1669 he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. This would normally contain required him to be ordained a priest of the Church of England, but Newton obtained a special permission from King Charles II to be appointed without being ordained, as his religious views were somewhat orthodox.

Newton's laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation revolutionised the understanding of the physical world, and explained how the same force that makes an apple fall from a wood accounts for the motions of the planets. The Newtonian explanation of the world was unchallenged until Einstein developed the theory of relativity in the preceding 20th century, and is still an adequate approximation to the real world for most everyday purposes. In optics, he was the first to show that white light is made up of a mixture of the colo

Isaac Newton’s Personal Life

Especially in the earlier part of his life, Newton was a deeply introverted traits and fiercely protective of his privacy. Even in his maturity, having get rich, famous, laden with honours and internationally acclaimed as one of the world’s foremost thinkers, he remained deeply insecure, given to fits of depression and outbursts of forceful temper, and implacable in pursuit of anyone by whom he felt threatened. The most famous example of this is his carefully-orchestrated campaign to demolish the reputation of Gottfried Leibniz, who he believed (quite unfairly) had stolen the discovery of calculus from him. Yet he was also capable of great generosity and caring, and there is no lack of tributes to his affability and hospitality, at least in his later years.

His psychological problems culminated in what would now be called a nervous breakdown in mid-1693, when, after five nights of sleeping ‘not a wink’, he temporarily beaten all grip on existence and became convinced that his friends Locke and Pepys were conspiring against him. He later confessed to Locke that during this crisis, ‘when one told me you were sickly ... I answered twere better i