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At the age of fifty Isaac Newton had a breakdown. I read five biographies about his life and it was only mentioned once. A small chart in the appendix said, "mental breakdown," with no explanation. I believe that biographical writers want to create monuments. "Isaac Newton grappled with gravity and forged history with his own hands. He was a thinker to end all thought." But Isaac broke down. He left university life, never to return, and went to work for the Royal mint. The way I see it he spent years trying to make a connection between the motion of the tides and the movement of the moon, between an apple falling and a gun firing. All those days and months of inventing calculus, studying the nature of light, and understanding gravity finally got to him. He needed a vacation. At the mint he turned
pieces of gold and silver into small circles.
-- Stokley Towles
Originally published by L D Books, used with permission.
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