34 Fascinating Facts About Isaac Newton | Legacy Facts

# Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642], the same year, Galileo died.

# Isaac Newton could fit inside a quarter size mug when he was an infant. According to the words of his mother. He was so small because on 25 December 1642, he was born prematurely.

# The father of Isaac Newton was also named Isaac Newton. For the honor of his father, who passed away just three months before his birth, Young Isaac was called with the same name.

# Newton's mother Hannah Ayscough left him at the age of only three. She left him in his maternal grandmother's care so she could live with her new husband.

# Newton as a young boy once threatened to burn his mother and stepfather alive.

# The mother of Isaac Newton wanted him to be a farmer but Newton disliked farming.

# Newton got an education at the King's School, Grantham, between the ages of 12 and 17.

# Because of his shy and quiet nature, Isaac Newton was bullied at school.

# Newton was helped by his uncle, Rev William Ayscough, to get into Trinity College.

# Newton won a four year Cambridge scholarship in 1664.

# Napoleon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates, Oprah, Obama, and Jimi Hendrix are famous left-handed people in the world.

# The Bible was the greatest passion of Isaac Newton, writing more about religion than that of science and mathematics.

# At the age of 27, Newton became a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

# Secretly, Newton was an alchemist.

# Newton developed a sunlight phobia by staring at the sun.

# For a year, Isaac Newton was a Member of Parliament and said only one sentence: he asked a nearby usher to close an open window.

# Isaac Newton was forced to return home when Cambridge University was closed due to the plague. This eventually became the most productive period of his life.

# Isaac Newton is believed to have died as a virgin.

# The last words of Isaac Newton were, "The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

# One in every ten British coins was forged in the 17th Century. Isaac Newton oversaw an extensive project to remember the old currency and to issue a more reliable one.

# Newton invented the ridges, still in use today, around the edges of the coins to avoid theft.

# In 1720, Isaac Newton lost the equivalent of 3 million USD in today's money on the stock market.

# Isaac Newton believed that the world would end in the year 2060 A.D.

# Newton's famous Quote: "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."

# An apple did not hit Newton in the head but it made him wonder if the force that makes apples fall influences the moon's motion around Earth.

# A sample of an apple tree of Sir Isaac Newton was sent to space to "defy gravity."

# Newton invented/discovered the calculus in about the same time that the average student learns it.

# Thirty-nine percent of philosophers would say that Newton "discovered" the calculus while 37 percent would say that he "invented" it. The rest have different thoughts about it.

# In 1666, Isaac Newton studied the light of the Sun using a prism and proved that it is made up of light of many colors.

# It took Isaac Newton 2 years to write The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. It was the culmination of over 20 years of thinking.

# The Principia Mathematica of Isaac Newton contained a simple error in the calculation that went unnoticed for 300 years.

# Newton's famous quote: "What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."

# Newton's famous quote: "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."

# Isaac Newton was featured on the first Apple Logo.

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