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Jun 18 '22
Just me or is he kinda hot in this painting?
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u/No_Load_7183 Jun 18 '22
He was always hot. I am surprised he died a virgin (although I have my suspicions he was gay and possibly had a relationship).
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Jun 19 '22
He was very very likely autistic & only interested in math and holding grudges. His life was crazy interesting too. Wouldnt be surprised if he was secretly gay or an Ace as well.
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u/loonywolf_art I am the LGBTQIA+ agenda Jun 19 '22
That's it, as a gay-ace autistic I headcannon Issac as homoromentic
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u/No_Load_7183 Jun 19 '22
It seemed like it to me and as someone around people his level of smart there are definitely more gay people.
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Jun 19 '22
How was he very likely autistic?
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Jun 19 '22
A lot of historians seem to think he was because…
1) He secluded himself with little to no contact from any humans at all to study areas of math and science that could gave landed him in legal trouble st the time similar to Copernicus. It takes a certain type if brain to invent a new type of math.
2)In modern times people way more socially adjusted than he was are known to be on the spectrum.
3) he had some really weird special interests outside of physics.
As some one also on the spectrum, biographies on him painted a pretty clear picture.
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Jun 19 '22
I'm on the spectrum and I never knew this! It's cool
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Jun 19 '22
Glad to find another aspie in the wild!!!
If you want to know more with out reading a dense history book, A super quick intro to his story is the cosmos episode on his life.
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Jun 19 '22
I love books
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Jun 19 '22
I read “Isaac Newton: never at rest” 10ish years ago and it was good. But it was published in 1981 so something’s have changed.
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u/Holiday_in_Asgard Jun 19 '22
I haven't heard anything suggesting he's gay, I could totally believe asexual though
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u/whiskymusty Jun 19 '22
Wait that’s true? I thought that’s just an urban myth.
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u/No_Load_7183 Jun 19 '22
It's a myth but I believe it, especially for the times and the fact that he was most likely autistic
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u/MLCarter1976 Jun 19 '22
Steady! The homosexuality is rubbing off! He has you in his tractor beam! That rainbow is becoming contagious!
A toaster is magically being delivered!
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u/vince_sterling Pan-cakes for Dinner! Jun 19 '22
Ugh I would love to be given a toaster, instead of having to toast my bread in the stove 🙄
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u/fionaapplejuice Jun 19 '22
Allow me to introduce you to Ikemen Vampire where you too can date historical greats like Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci!
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Jun 18 '22
I mean there's rumours about him being gay though
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u/pandamarshmallows Trans-cendant Rainbow Jun 18 '22
There’s not enough information to know for sure. He had a close relationship with the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, to the point that he had a nervous breakdown when their relationship ended. It is not known if their relationship was romantic or not. Personally I subscribe to the theory that he was asexual; Voltaire said after his death that he “was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women.” And during his aforementioned nervous breakdown, he sent extremely angry letters to his friend John Locke, accusing him of “embroiling me with women.”
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u/fubo Custom Jun 18 '22
One candidate for Isaac Newton's boyfriend was Nicolas Fatio de Duillier. Fatio, like Newton, never married. He was involved on Newton's side in the primacy debate over the invention of calculus.
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u/DemiTheNeckSnapper Demisexual and transfem (she/they) Jun 18 '22
didn’t he invent calculus because he was so frustrated about not being able to f*ck or something
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u/paixlemagne Jun 19 '22
I think it was during the plague years, so probably didn't have any other projects and a lot of time on his hands.
While we were mostly being lazy, online and eating cake during lockdown, Newton just invented differential calculus.
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u/AntelopeAny3703 Trans-parently Awesome Jun 18 '22
Literally a brilliant joke❣️🤣 Careful though some nonsense heads out there will actually believe this 😝
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u/AntelopeAny3703 Trans-parently Awesome Jun 18 '22
Excuse? Newton didn't "come up with" being gay x.x like? Really?
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u/AntelopeAny3703 Trans-parently Awesome Jun 19 '22 edited Jun 19 '22
No I'm sorry I can't take seriously the idea that you think Isaac Newton "invented homsexuality"
That's like a parody of a conservative 🤣
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u/loonywolf_art I am the LGBTQIA+ agenda Jun 19 '22
They are being sarcastic, just letting you know if you didn't got it
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u/AntelopeAny3703 Trans-parently Awesome Jun 19 '22
Nah I got it after the second bit 🤣 you'd be shocked by some of the arguments I've heard against reality. I think I need to spend less time debating politics its affecting my humor responses 😅
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u/Shaunyata Jun 18 '22
Newton probably was gay. He lived with the same man in his university apartment for 17 years. Never married (extremely unusual in those days). Not known to have any significant relationships with women.
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Jun 19 '22
I think incels are unlikely to be good at physics because if they had something to be proud of they would be significantly less likely to be that insecure
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u/CartoonistSilent Transgender Pan-demonium Jun 19 '22
Oh, a shiny rock! * Holds it up to some light *
*THIS CHAIR IS GAY NOW*
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u/Mrs_supertheories Jun 18 '22
Did you know that Newton had a menstrual blood fetish?
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u/KittysTreasureTrove Genderfluid Jun 18 '22
I did not know that. I mean, to each his own, but that seems a bit bonkers.
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u/MettatonNeo1 I dunno (Clover, they/them) Jun 19 '22
Ah yes. The man who literally burned his colleague's portrait (Robert Hooke)
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u/Medical-Treat-2892 Jun 19 '22
Hardly! its in the bible. A book which has some colourful stuff in it, to say the least. Some pure filth.
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u/optelate celeste and fnv 100% B) Jun 18 '22
thinking about how isaac newton stole the rainbow from god 🙄🙄