Isaac Newton, n.Trivia

Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in 2066.

Isaac Newton studied the occult and predicted the end of the world as we know it to happen around the year 2060.

Isaac Newton's dog set his laboratory on fire, ruining his twenty years of research.

Isaac Newton invented the cat door

Isaac Newton's apple story often misses an important detail; namely, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused him to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it might never hit the ground, going into 'orbit' as it were

Isaac Newton never said the idea of gravity came to him when an apple fell on his head. He said he sat "in a contemplative mood" and "was occasioned by the fall of an apple".

Leibniz published on Differential Calculus nine years before Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton's tooth sold for $35,700. The tooth was set in a ring.

In 1704, Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world would end in 2060.

Isaac Newton seems to have died a virgin.

Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.