Isaac Newton · every age
What was Isaac Newton doing at 32?
Invented calculus and gravity theory in a plague year at 23
- c. 1675
Hypothesis of Light: proposed an ether carrying forces
In February he wrote Hooke the line about standing on the shoulders of giants.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - c. 1675
Excused by royal dispensation from taking holy orders
His unorthodox beliefs would have barred him; the exemption covered all future Lucasian professors.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 32
Portrait: Portrait: Godfrey Kneller (1689), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
