Newton Dies: Gravity's Author Passes at 84
Newton didn't discover gravity by watching an apple fall. That story came later, told by Newton himself to make a point about inspiration. What actually happened was slower and stranger: twenty years of obsession, a nervous breakdown, a feud with Leibniz over who invented calculus first, and a personality so difficult that he had almost no friends. He died at 84, a virgin, having never married. His Principia gave the world the math to predict planetary motion, cannon trajectories, and eventually space travel. He spent the last thirty years of his life not on physics but on alchemy and biblical prophecy. Nobody talks about that part.
March 20, 1726
300 years ago
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