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From: travis@cunixc.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey)
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Subject: Re: Gay Scientists in History
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 18:32:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 18:32:11 1987
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In article <453@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM> rrizzo@cc6.bbn.com.UUCP (Ron Rizzo) writes:
>Also, Sir Isaac Newton, who never married, had no known women in his
>life

it's been a long time since I've read a biography of him; but I'm relatively
certain that he offered a proposal of marriage to someone shortly after
college, which was turned down.  he was never linked romantically with anyone
again.

in the absence of any evidence stronger than "warm friendship", I think it's at
least as likely that he was heterosexually inclined, or that he was just
asexual.  the proposal of marriage, of course, was probably just an expected
thing, which doesn't stand as evidence either way.

t
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