A flight of fancy: Newton in love
DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.1900
Isaac Newton never married, and there is no conclusive evidence that he ever had a romantic relationship. Given the near absence of first-hand information about his personal life, I deem it silly to assume that he never fell in love with a woman. My admittedly groundless and facetious surmise is that when he fell in love with a woman, he would declare his love to her in a poem. Since he was a great scientist, his poems would be, in a sense, “scientific.” When the women read them, they would take Isaac for a crazy nerd and—one after another—heartlessly reject his love. I have taken the artistic liberty to speculate what one of his poems might have been like.
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Ilya Yashin, (ilya_yashin@yahoo.com) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
