Does Great Scientist Issac Newton suffur from Mental illness and Manic Depression ?

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he was very reserve and have no friends and not reserved friends

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My friend, all I know is that when Newton and Halley measured and predicted that the comet they observed would come back 76 years later, the put the final nail in the coffin of medieval superstitions that predicted all kind of follies associated with the appearance of comets. We can thank them for that and I don't care if he was a lonely person; he contributed greatly to science.

Incidentally, I also love Jesus and try to follow his teaching in my every day. But then, Jesus - the man, and not Jesus - the god.
 
not anymore, he doesn't...lol

On a more serious note, so many centuries after his death, it really would be impossible to definitively answer this, but it doesn't seem very likely at all. Manic depressives (now known as sufferers of bipolar disorder) are not known for their reserve, especially during a manic phase. He did have friends, (lots of letters to prove it), but it's not like Newton was a party animal. When one gets into one's work, shutting out the rest of the world isn't so strange. And being that he was so far ahead of his time, how many people would he have to just talk (then) cutting edge physics with?

He did have the symptoms of mercury poisoning toward the end of his life, which makes some sense, since he was an alchemist as well and mercury was common in that art, being they didn't know the danger yet. That could definitely contribute to the impression of possible insanity, since mercury poisoning affects the brain and CNS.

I doubt he'd have done so much and gotten so far if he suffered from any serious mental illness, so I'd say he didn't have manic depression...
 
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