Isaac Newton: Difference between revisions

He had a lonely, unhappy childhood, which may have been due to the fact that he was about a billion times smarter than anyone else around him. Even after he became a professor at Cambridge he frequently lectured to an empty classroom. It was only when he began corresponding with Christopher Wren and the other members of the Royal Society in London that he began to blossom as England's leading scientist.

 

* He is an important character in [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', which posited that he took the job at the mint and moved England to the gold standard because {{spoiler|he was trying find the Solomonic gold (the raw material for making the Philosopher's stone). He made it such that all the gold in the world will circulate through England at some point where he can test them}}. After all, historians did refer to Newton as the last alchemist.

* Robert Langdon visits his tomb in ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''.