Isaac Newton: History's Greatest Mad (Angry?) Scientist

There exist many striking portraits of Isaac Newton (by then, Sir Isaac Newton) because during his lifetime his work arrested the world’s attention. Knowing something of Newton’s life, especially his early years, one gazes on these portraits seeking signs of genius and what the Encyclopedia Britannica—to take one standard reference—unapologetically characterizes as “psychosis.”

Isaac Newton: A vindictive, secretive, paranoid genius

Isaac Newton: A vindictive, secretive, paranoid genius

Isaac Newton: A vindictive, secretive, paranoid genius

Issue 2903, Magazine cover date: 9 February 2013

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