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Sadly, no apple actually hit Newton's nerdy head, which has been encouraging school children to take interest in physics for centuries. As disappointing as it might seem, Newton just watched an apple fall to the ground and became enlightened on the spur of the moment. It took him twenty years to formulate his theory of gravitation which resulted in me sitting at home, which felt similarly long, in a desperate attempt to grasp the complexity of physics in general, with another physicist's biography to remember for a test the morning after on top.
I believe that if he had laid off wandering around his mother's garden and perhaps sipped srawberry mojitos in the nearest pub instead, I could have been doing so too.
What is more, I have caught a glimpse of so many things fall in my life and never have I come up with a groundbreaking discovery, however, I rather painfully became fully aware of the force of gravity when my head hit the desk during the physics lecture and that was way before I was able to spell Newton. I suppose that we have something in common after all.
Did You Know?
♥ Newton was born both on January 4th and Christmas Eve in 1642 due to the replacement of the Julian calendar by the Gregorian in 1750. He never celebrated birthday at Christmas as the change towards the new style was only implemented after his death.
♥ Newton never met his father who died three months after his birth.
♥ Newton was also keen on alchemy and occult studies which significantly contributed to the development of his theory of gravity.
♥ Newton finished geocentrism with the very last bullet.
♥ Newton was a strict unorthodox Christian, a monotheist, an anti-trinitarian, with more interest in religion than science based on the number of works written on both subjects. He believed that the world was created by both divine presence and natural processes.
♥ Using the latin word gravitas(weight) he anticipated a new neologism which was to be gravity.
♥ He was born prematurely and allegedly would have fit into a litre conteiner.
♥ When his mother remarried, she left him in the care of his grandmother in order to get on with her life with a man Newton abhored.
♥ He never married even though he was engaged once.
♥ His widowed mother wanted him to be a farmer but a headmaster stepped in and Newton was allowed to finish his studies.
♥ At the age of 26 he was appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics.
♥ He pursued his studies as an ace student as a vindictive way to outdo a school bully.
♥ Newton spent a year as a member of the Parliament of England but devoted the time to whine about cold in the chamber.
♥ As the warden of the Principal Mint of the Kingdom of England (known today as the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom) Newton was in charge of the financially unsuccessful Great Recoinage in 1696 attempting to deal with the problem of forged machine struck silver coins and debasement. He took the reponsibility of gathering evidence, prosecuting and convicting the counterfeiters himself.
♥ Newton witnessed the foundation of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, probably the oldest institution of such kind, which he became President of in 1703.
♥ He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705.
♥ According to various polls and surveys, the scientists seem rather indecisive whether it was Newton or Einstein to have made the greatest constribution to physics ever.
♥ For ten consecutive years Newton' s portrait rested on £1 banknotes issued by the Bank of England, from 1978 until 1988.
♥ Both his monument and his tomb can be found in Westminster Abbey.
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