There used to be a saying that the more accomplished scientists, the more "perverted" their personalities became. For example, Newton, known as the "god-like man" and "great human light", the first person in the history of British science to be knighted, he actually did not marry in his life. Some people think that this is caused by The loneliness of Newton's personality. Others say that Newton only knows how to study science, and has "lost his humanity", so that he does not care about love or affection at all.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Newton. Newton was indeed a great man obsessed with scientific research, but he also had normal human emotions. When he was young, he was also engaged to a beautiful and dignified young girl. This young girl is also the person That Newton has loved all his life, and can be said to be his "only love".
Newton
On January 4, 1643, Newton was born in a small village called Woolthorpe in poor county, England. His father, who had been dead for several months at the time of his birth, was a 40-year-old honest country farmer. Newton was not born without his father. His mother, Hannah, was a capable woman who devoted herself to raising poor children.
Because Hannah was very competent, her reputation was known to an Anglican priest named Smith, who decided to marry her. There are far more women than men in Britain, Hannah is widowed, and the man is a high-status priest, rich, and childless, so Hannah attaches great importance to this new marriage. To this end, she decided to leave Newton, who was more than two years old, in her ex-husband's house and entrust it to Newton's grandmother to raise.
As a result, Newton lost his mother again.
Newton's autograph
Newton has been weak since childhood, although his grandmother also takes care of him, but after all, there are many things to do, such as farming, etc., so Newton has no friends since he was a child, his personality is relatively withdrawn, and he rarely communicates with people.
After attending middle school, because The Gretham Middle School was far from Newton's home, Newton had to live in a pharmacy near the middle school. This year, Newton was 12 years old.
The owner of the drugstore is called Clark, and he is a very good man who always takes good care of The Child Newton. Once, Newton had acute abdominal cramps at night, and it was Mr. Clarke who braved the heavy rain to find a doctor in the city, who saved him. While Newton was bedridden taking his medicine, Clarke's daughter, Miss Story, walked into his life.
Story was a year younger than Newton and was a charming girl. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes, and has a lively and cute personality. Every day it was the little girl who took medicine to Newton's bedside. She also took Newton's hand and chatted, telling him a lot of interesting things about the city. For a country boy like Newton, everything she said was so fresh.
In the fall of 1660, at the age of 17, Newton became engaged to Miss Story, 16. They often go for a walk in the late afternoon next to a small river two kilometres from the pharmacy. Story liked to hold Newton's arm, but Newton was very shy.
In 1661, Newton was admitted to the prestigious Cambridge University. Since entering college, Newton has devoted himself to his studies. During his college years, Newton was a standard "nerd", who "kept his ears out of the window and read only the books of the sages". First Aristotle, Descartes, and then Euclid, Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus and other precursors of natural science. He melted himself like a drop of water in the ocean of knowledge, and absorbed all kinds of knowledge and nutrients without sleeping or eating.
Newton in the lab
He studied so hard that all his mind was given to science, so much so that he colded his fiancée. Storry noticed that the lover was writing fewer and fewer letters to himself. At this time, there was also rumor that Newton's identity was different after he went to Cambridge University, so he hated Story, who was still an ordinary person. At this time, Story felt extremely anxious, so he wrote many letters urging Newton to marry him as soon as possible. But by this time Newton was already caught up in the heavy work of scientific research, always writing back to say that he would wait a little longer. As a result, their wedding date was repeatedly postponed.
Soon, a man named Vincent appeared beside Miss Story. The man admired Story for a long time, and seeing that there was an opportunity, he launched a fierce pursuit of her. Story waited for Newton for many years, always disappointed, and thought that Newton no longer loved her. Finally, one day, she could not afford to wait any longer, so she accepted Vincent's pursuit. Soon, she married Vincent.
At that time, Newton had just come out of the laboratory, heard the news of Story's marriage, and immediately fainted in pain. For a month, Newton was curled up in a small dark room, no one wanted to see him. He was in love with Miss Story and had never changed. It was his poor communication and intellectual character that delayed the marriage. In his later years, Newton wrote in a letter that Story was the only woman he had ever loved in his life.
Still
After losing Story, Newton never married. This shows Newton's affection for her.
In his later years, Newton's family was accompanied by an innocent and lively niece. This niece was beautiful, generous, lively and lovely, and gave him great comfort in his later years. After the niece got married, she often came to visit him with her husband. Every time Newton sees the little couple who love each other, will he remember his young self and that her?
Story is said to have died in 1726 at the age of 83. On March 31, 1727, Newton's heart stopped beating at the age of 85.
Author: Skeptical Explorer