Isaac’s mum wanted him to be a farmer. She removed him from
school so he could learn to grow crops. He was a terrible farmer, so eventually
she allowed him back in school. Isaac became a member of parliament, but he
wasn’t particularly good at that, either. Isaac didn’t have many friends. He
never married, and he never had children. Isaac studied alchemy; he tried (and
failed) to create a philosopher’s stone which could cure illness and turn lead
into gold. He’s credited with inventing the doggy door. He invented calculus,
though he was so worried about criticism, he didn’t publish for years. Isaac
was the one who discovered prisms separate light into rainbows. He invented the
reflecting telescope. Those little ridges on the outside of quarters? Sir Isaac
Newton invented them to discourage coin “clipping” and forgery. Scripture study
led him to announce the world wouldn’t end until at least 2060. Oh, and there’s
the whole gravity thing.
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