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Newton is often seen as one of the greatest scientific people in all history due to his contributions, which inspired [[Kant]] to create the philosophical concepts of the [[categorical imperative]] and the [[synthetic a priori]].   

Newton is often seen as one of the greatest scientific people in all history due to his contributions, which inspired [[Kant]] to create the philosophical concepts of the [[categorical imperative]] and the [[synthetic a priori]].   

Newton, who never married, died in March of 1727 in [[London]], [[England]], and was buried in Westminster Abbey.  After his death and burial, Newton was exhumed so he could be buried in a more prominent location in [[Westminster Abby]].  During this exhumation process, it was discovered that Newton had large amounts of mercury in his body, probably as a direct result of his [[alchemy|alchemical]] experiments.  These large amounts of mercury may explain Newton’s eccentricity in his latter years, as well as his cause of death.  <ref>Newton Biography[http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html]</ref>

Newton, who never married and was widely suspected to have been gay (that fact that his lover was also a Roman Catholic increased his fear of persecution in post reformation England and Cambridge University), died in March of 1727 in [[London]], [[England]], and was buried in Westminster Abbey.  After his death and burial, Newton was exhumed so he could be buried in a more prominent location in [[Westminster Abby]].  During this exhumation process, it was discovered that Newton had large amounts of mercury in his body, probably as a direct result of his [[alchemy|alchemical]] experiments.  These large amounts of mercury may explain Newton’s eccentricity in his latter years, as well as his cause of death.  <ref>Newton Biography[http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html]</ref>

Newton’s Laws stood as “laws” for years after his death, but in 1816 the discovery of Mercury’s anomalous perihelion provided evidence that Newton’s laws did not always correctly predict behavior in the observed, external, world. <ref>Newton’s Laws Falsified 1816[http://www.galilean-library.org/lakatos.html]</ref>  It was not until 1919, however, that a series of experiments designed to test [[General Relativity]] provided the scientific community with enough evidence to replace those laws. <ref>Newton’s Laws in 1919 [http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/creation/falsify.html]</ref> Once a theory could replace Newton’s Laws, they were fully falsified and replaced with a theory that better matched the observed universe. <ref>Putnam, Dr. Hilary.  Mathematics, Matter, and Method.  Cambridge University Press.  1980.  Page 257 [http://books.google.com/books?id=oEXw5dsrY64C&pg=RA2-PA257&lpg=RA2-PA257&dq=newton+falsify+mercury&source=web&ots=r1RiPYytw2&sig=3f-OYsTqprSmMxgmSgePqsjoXWo]</ref>   

Newton’s Laws stood as “laws” for years after his death, but in 1816 the discovery of Mercury’s anomalous perihelion provided evidence that Newton’s laws did not always correctly predict behavior in the observed, external, world. <ref>Newton’s Laws Falsified 1816[http://www.galilean-library.org/lakatos.html]</ref>  It was not until 1919, however, that a series of experiments designed to test [[General Relativity]] provided the scientific community with enough evidence to replace those laws. <ref>Newton’s Laws in 1919 [http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/creation/falsify.html]</ref> Once a theory could replace Newton’s Laws, they were fully falsified and replaced with a theory that better matched the observed universe. <ref>Putnam, Dr. Hilary.  Mathematics, Matter, and Method.  Cambridge University Press.  1980.  Page 257 [http://books.google.com/books?id=oEXw5dsrY64C&pg=RA2-PA257&lpg=RA2-PA257&dq=newton+falsify+mercury&source=web&ots=r1RiPYytw2&sig=3f-OYsTqprSmMxgmSgePqsjoXWo]</ref>