10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Sir Isaac Newton

Reasons why Newton was an actual ‘mad’ genius

Sunny Labh
3 min readJun 19, 2022

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  1. Isaac Newton and his father carried the same name. Newton was named after his father in his honor who died just a few months before his birth.
  2. Newton hated his stepfather. Shortly after Newton’s birth, his mother married another man named Barnabas Smith. The couple had three children together. Newton was never on good terms with his mother and his step-father.
  3. Newton was bullied almost every day in school. He…

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Sunny Labh

Science writer and communicator majoring in Quantum Mechanics. Curator of @PhysInHistory on twitter. Email: thepiggsboson@gmail.com