Isaac newton gay
Isaac Newton probably NOT a virgin
RobRoy1
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_208.html
While he may not have confused it to a woman, the interrogate still remains expose as to whether he might hold lost it to a man…
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,115657+2+108764,00.html (scan down to “International Prominence”)
Read between the lines the account of his friendship with a certain “Fatio”.
None of this is conclusive, but we must question after all this time what does it mean when a reasonably excellent looking, well appointed genius eschews proposals of romance from the beauties of his day and suffers an passionate breakdown over the separation of a male friend? Couple that with the fact that if he was (sshhhhh) g-a-y, it certainly wouldn’t be spelled out in bold letters for us today.
While I’m not a radical fearie proponent that all geniuses were actually gay (in reality an anachonistic designation), and also identify that in a less homophobic (if only by virtue of a thought set that pretended it didn’t exist) time, not all intense male-male friendships were erotic, nonetheless, sometimes what it looks like is just what it is…
Cooper2
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July 28, 2020Richard12 Comments
Two months ago, I was immersed in a book about the Wright brothers, builders and pilots of the world’s first motor-operated airplane. The author, David McCullough, did a fine job with one exception: He made no reference to Orville or Wilbur’s romantic interests, merely stating that neither of them married. I had to turn to Google to obtain the low-down. Not a single girlfriend or boyfriend! They were life-long bachelors—nothing so unusual about that—who had an inverted family experience due mostly to their father’s strongly held belief that the outside nature was depraved and unworthy of belief. When their sister Katherine got married at age 52, Orville felt betrayed and threw a fit.
I used to think the sex drive, the “urge to merge,” was universal, that we all had this fundamental need and that it had to be satisfied. The group to which I involve is, may I say, the norm—hetero sex, man and woman. Sexual minorities can scorn us all they fancy , but this is how the human race stays alive. Gay men and women comprise ± 5% of the population in every culture on world. I am open-minded enough to respect most points on the sexual continuum, but not all. I could m
Isaac Newton
Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in Lincolnshire. He went to school at Grantham, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1661. In 1669 he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. This would normally hold required him to be ordained a priest of the Church of England, but Newton obtained a special permission from King Charles II to be appointed without being ordained, as his religious views were somewhat orthodox.
Newton's laws of motion and theory of universal gravitation revolutionised the understanding of the physical world, and explained how the matching force that makes an apple fall from a tree accounts for the motions of the planets. The Newtonian explanation of the world was unchallenged until Einstein developed the theory of relativity in the early 20th century, and is still an adequate approximation to the real world for most everyday purposes. In optics, he was the first to show that pale light is made up of a mixture of the colo
Was Sir Isaac Newton gay?
BrainGlutton1
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle_(novel) – which features Sir Isaac Newton as a major character, assumes (or at least very, very strongly implies) that he was homosexual; it’s an important plot point in his relations with some other male characters. This is something I’ve never before read about Newton. His Wikipedia bio – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton – doesn’t mention it; OTOH, it does not mention Newton every having been married. Newton is not listed on the “List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people” page – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay%2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people – neither in the “confirmed” nor “debated” section; and it does cover historical figures. Was Newton gay?
Revtim2
Cecil’s column on whether he died a virgin or not:http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_208.html)
Still, having thus fenced out the boundaries of the knowable, we can say that, with the possible exception of one teenage friendship (there is no sign that it became physical), Isaac Newton apparently formed no romantic attachments during his 84 years of life. Further