11 Things You Didn’t Know About The Crazy Genius Isaac Newton
2 min readJan 1, 2018
An Introduction to some of the crazy beliefs that you probably did not know about the famous scientist, Isaac Newton.
1. Isaac Newton was one of the greatest workaholics this world has known.
2. He was also one of the greatest insomniacs.
3. When deciding between a reflecting telescope and a conventional refracting model, he preferably decided to construct one himself.
3. Newton was mostly superstitious and cranky.
4. He believed in alchemy, which held that metals can be transformed into gold.
5. He believed that there was a universal semen floating in the cosmos (and other beliefs of alchemy).
6. He was very religious, writing more about theology than science.
He was fond of the book of Revelations and obsessed with the literal measurements of the Temple of Solomon, as portrayed in the Bible.
