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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Newton didn’t have a wife. He had other issues including regularly having nervous breakdowns, wanting anyone who steals something to be summarily executed, and believing in alchemy. By all accounts not a very nice guy but a total genius.


23 posted on 07/21/2011 5:15:18 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

and most of our founding fathers cultivated and used various (now illegal) drugs.


25 posted on 07/21/2011 5:35:11 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: Mercat

Newton also used and abused his position as President of the Royal Society to discredit and slander his literary and scientific rivals. (He would have called them enemies.)

Not a nice man at all.


27 posted on 07/21/2011 5:41:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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