Startled revelation about the lonely genius Issaac Newton

Few know that the great scientist Issaac Newton embraced a huge loneliness due to his very different personality. During college, he had only one friend. In particular, the autopsy results of his death confirmed that Newton had never had sex during his 84-year life.

Issaac Newton is one of the greatest geniuses in history that has gained worldwide recognition. His findings laid the groundwork for a series of important discoveries in the modern world. However, his mental health is not well known.

Two sides of the problem 

So far, most of what we have learned about Isaac Newton is his great contribution to science as the three main laws of motion (the law of inertia, force, momentum and reaction). , his laws of gravitation and his discoveries in optics, astronomy and mathematics. Newton's laws helped find ways to calculate real distance, velocity and weight; laid the foundations for modern inventions, including from steam engines to space rockets. However, there is a part of Newton's life that is still rarely talked about, which is a disturbing point in his personality.

According to some records, if you pay close attention, in the biography of Newton mentioned a series of symptoms of bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression - a disease that has cling for most of his life. he. Accordingly, right from an early age, Newton was a child living self-contained, often cowering and not participating in games with friends of the same age. Instead, he spent most of his time alone or tinkering with machines, wheelchairs, house models or other games.

Newton had almost no friends and never had sex.

Despite his closeness, Newton is also a hot-tempered person, who can frantically attack anyone when he is in a state of frustration. In a rare Newton note he found a long list of his "sins" or wrongdoings, including the threat of setting a house on fire, burning his parents alive; assaulting girls, threatening to kill many people . whenever they are not satisfied. It is because of his temper that he is not popular.

While studying at Cambridge, Newton also made friends with only one person. His records during college indicate that during this period Newton often experienced a state of anxiety, sadness, fear, inferiority, and even suicidal intent. After being selected as a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Newton continued to be in an erratic state. He was so excited about researching and researching that he forgot to eat or sleep. However, after each such episode, he often fell into a state of stress, bewilderment, and strange actions.

During his 30 years at Trinity University, Newton taught only 3 students but none of them could get a degree. All soon retreated when they realized that the teacher who directed them to be a cold person, never smiled and did not know what to joke about. The melancholy, contemplative face that can suddenly become violent, rushes into reviling Newton's people - as described by the historian Henry More FRS - that terrifies everyone.

Giant loneliness 

Later, after having achieved great success and becoming famous throughout the world, was recognized by talented people, but Newton was still afraid to publish his research for fear of being stumbled. criticism and disparagement of other scientists. According to many records, if not encouraged and provoked by a friend named Edmund Halley , Newton might not have published the most important work of his life - a series of three books called Principia, or the original Mathematical logic of natural philosophy.

Newton also frequently avoided having to cooperate with others. Whenever he comes in contact with people, he often frightens words. His relationship with other scientists was described as a dictatorial relationship because Newton would refuse to speak to those who dared to oppose opinions or to criticize his research. With a temper of temper and always think that he is right, he caused trouble, quarreled with friends until enemies.

Historians say that, throughout his life, Newton loved only two people. One of them is a granddaughter named Catherine Barton - who later hired him as a housekeeper in London. The other is Swiss mathematician Fatio de Duillier. Because Newton was so close to Duillier while being authoritarian with nearly everyone plus the fact that neither of them were married, some historians of Newton doubted their relationship was a relationship. homosexual.

In times of severe depression, Newton often chattered. He also gradually became obsessed with religion and immersed himself in alchemy. In total, Newton spent about 25 years secretly researching alchemy, on mysterious phenomena, and writing thousands of pages of material on the subject. Like many people with other bipolar disorder, Newton suffered from severe hallucinations.

In religious and alchemy records, he said that he was appointed by God to bring truth to the world. Newton's scientific discoveries throughout his life made him an outstanding figure, admired by the world but it also cost him. The truth is, Newton had to endure much pain and suffering because of his mental disorder . The historian of Newton William Blake once wrote: 'Reason and hatred, love and hatred are all necessary to prove the existence of a human being. It is these that remind us that the great Sir Isaac Newton is also a human being '.

Throughout his life, Newton had suffered much pain and suffering from his mental disorder.

Unstable childhood is the cause?

The researchers agreed that Newton's peculiar childhood was part of the reason that shaped his personality . Newton never saw his father because his father, also named Isaac Newton, died three months before his birth. Being born premature, when born, Newton was as small as a bottle, making everyone think that he could not survive. However, Newton still lived miraculously despite extremely weak health.

Without a father, at the age of 3, Newton lacked his mother's caring hand when his mother remarried to a man in the same situation, leaving her young son to be cared for by his grandparents. Therefore, during his childhood years, Newton always felt abandoned. In a note currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Newton confessed that feeling had clung to him until his late twenties.

When Newton was 10 years old, with his stepfather's death, his mother returned to his side with his three half-sisters. However, the gap between mother and child does not seem to be closed, but on the contrary, it is even more distance. Because, his mother, Hannah - who is an illiterate - did not appreciate his son's intelligence and did not want him to pursue an education.

When Newton was 17 at school, Newton was called back by his mother to take over the family farm despite his objections. Later, when his uncle - who was a university student - realized his great intelligence and burning passion for science, he persuaded Newton's mother to send his son to university. learn. Because of that, Newton enrolled 2 years later than the average age at the time.

Busy for scientific research and, more importantly, for the psychological issues that were thought to be the reason Newton had not been married throughout his life. Even mathematicians Charles Hutton, economist John Maynard Keynes and physicist Carl Sagan in the articles cite the autopsy results when he dies saying the illustrious scientist is not have been sexually active throughout their 84-year life. 

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