Sir Isaac Newton's teenage 'sins' (From The Argus)
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Sir Isaac Newton's teenage 'sins'
5:40pm Monday 9th January 2012 in News
Academics from the University of Sussex have published an insight into the mind of the teenage Sir Isaac Newton.
The list has been made available by The Newton Project, a collaboration between University of Sussex and institutions at Cambridge University dedicated to uploading Newton’s unpublished and published works for free online.
Addressed to God, the Fitzwilliam Notebook contains a list of more than 50 “sins” he could remember committing in 1662 when he was 19 years old.
He split his list between those committed before Whitsunday and those after.
He confessed to “making pies on Sunday night”.
In the list, he also confessed to “striking many”, “punching my sister” and “wishing death and hoping it to some”.
He admitted “lying to a louse” and “twisting a cord on Sunday morning”.
A passage on The Newton Project’s website said: “Though we are lucky to have a substantial collection of second- and third-hand accounts of Newton’s early years, only a very few manuscripts in his own hand, dating from his boyhood and undergraduate years, give a more direct insight into his personal world.”
Comments(10)
p a t r i c k
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10:06pm Mon 9 Jan 12
Berkshire Hunt
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10:59pm Mon 9 Jan 12
Berkshire Hunt
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10:59pm Mon 9 Jan 12
cybergu11y
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4:15am Tue 10 Jan 12
Berkshire Hunt wrote:He probably was stoned, but don't tell Sussex Police! They'll just add it to the statistics of solved crimes and Newton will be branded a dope!
He should have been stoned.
Morpheus
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8:51am Tue 10 Jan 12
an academic to publish somebody else's work.
fascinator
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12:01pm Tue 10 Jan 12
Berkshire Hunt
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2:34pm Tue 10 Jan 12
fascinator wrote:A bluff cove at that WHAT!
I'm sure that 'making pies' was a euphemism in the 17th C for something extremely sinful, and liable to make a young cove go blind
Berkshire Hunt
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2:36pm Tue 10 Jan 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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7:16pm Tue 10 Jan 12
Urinating on streets on the way home from pubs
Playing popular music at a very loud level throughout the night, every night
Studying for an hour a week
Stinking out the community with skunk
Telling the neighbours to **ck off when they complain about their anti-social behaviour.
However, I doubt unis will exist within the next 30 years.
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