As a young man, Newton was apparently best described as eccentric and relentlessly curious. The book recounts some of his many experiments, most of which are pretty cool and a couple of which are a little alarming. 

The young Isaac Newton’s “debtor’s ledger of sins”:

• Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
• Denying that I did so
• Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
• Calling Derothy Rose a jade
• Punching my sister
• Striking many
• Wishing death and hoping it to some
• Threating my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
• Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne
• Making pies on Sunday night
• Squirting water on Thy day
• Not turning nearer to Thee according to my belief
• Setting my heart on money learning pleasures more than Thee
• having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamses

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