How did Sir Isaac Newton Die?

Answer 1

It wasn't through an apple falling on his head!

In the last few years of Newton's life he was troubled by urinary incontinence probably due to a kidney stone. In January 1725 he was seized with violent cough and inflammation of the lungs which induced him to move to Kensington. In the next month he had a case of gout and then had an improvement of health.

His duties from the mint were terminated and thus he seldom left home. On February 28, 1727 he went to London to preside at a meeting of the Royal Society but his health condition forced him to return to Kensington on March 4 when it was determined he had a kidney stone. He endured great suffering. On March 18 he became delirious around 6pm and stayed in that state until Monday March 20, 1727 when he died between one and two in the morning.

His body was moved to London and on Tuesday, March 28 it lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber in Westminster Abbey, then moved to his burial location in the Abbey.

After his death, Newton's body was discovered to have had massive amounts of mercury in it, probably resulting from his alchemical pursuits. Mercury poisoning could explain Newton's eccentricity in late life

Answer 2

When Did Isaac Newton Die

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In 1725 Newton's health began to fail. He died on March 20, 1727, and eight days later was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Natural causes- old age. Nothing more specific in the historial record.

Answer 7

He neglected his health just to study. Clearly he just wanted to help everyone understand the beauty of science. Such a shame that he had so many health problems though!

Answer 8

If the mercury poisoning was deliberate, then who dunnit? There were nine beneficiaries from his estate, mostly half-nieces and half-nephews, though he died intestate.

His liquid asssets were divided equally between his eight half-nieces and half-nephews (three Pilkingtons, three Smiths and two Bartons. Woolsthorpe Manor passed to his heir-in-law, a John Newton ("God knows a poor representative of so great a man"), who, after six years of "cockfighting, horse racing, drinking and folly" was forced to mortgage and then sell the manor before dying in a drunken accident.

Sounds like a scoundrel, eager to lay his hands on Newton's property. So he had motive. But did he have opportunity?

Answer 9

Apple fell on his ******* head

Answer 10

He died of old age when he was 84.