>invented Calculus
>father of modern physics
>got into slap-fights with kraut mathematician (Yes, you stole Calculus from me Leibniz, even though I never showed my papers to anyone before you did )
>got into petty fights with Robert Hooke
>sent people to the gallows for counterfeiting as Master of the Mint
>was into alchemy, wanted to create the philosopher's stone
>possibly an Arian, hated !catholics and believed the world is going to end in 2060 according to napkin Bible/Charlemagne math
>lost a fortune on a meme stock market investment
>died a virgin, claimed he was engaged once
!historychads !physics what crazy stories you know about Newton?
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What I find most remarkable is his work on historical chronology. This is exactly, and I cannot tell you how fricking exactly to the slightest degree, exactly what I would have done in his place... If I had modern computer technology and a 55-gallon drum of adderal and 6 months to ruin my body and mind. It is fricking incredible that he would even try to put all this data from weird mythological sources together and it's not just complete schizo rambling, it looked to me like he was making a rational effort. It's like what Eusebius did but even more ambitious. This guy had to have some kind of mutation because the normal human brain just does not produce enough dopamine and epinephrine to keep like 5 fricking civilizations in your head simultaneously and constantly compare their timelines, possibly by visualizing them. Dude was unique.
Strangely though... nothing else about him is similar to me in any way.
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