Possibly kind of hot Isaac Newton image from Wikipedia. There’s something about the hair.
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1) Genius = hot.
2) Big nose = hot.
Case closed.
Handsome, I think. Plus he was fucking smart. Then again, if he was getting laid a bunch, he might not have done all the cool shit he did. Poor Leibniz though, he ruined that guy’s life.
Not digging the bangs. Looks like when I tried to cut my hair when I was 5.
Kind of intensely creepy? Yes.
I’ve always been drawn to a dude who looks like he could spear a martini olive with his nose.
Too bad Newton died a virgin. Unlike most other physicists who are/were total horndogs.
Isaac was proud that he died a virgin. Crazy isn’t sexy.
With a nose like that, could there be any doubt?
I would pay money to see Dan Savage in that wig.
No. But… for some reason I was struck with the notion that gay men might find him more attractive than straight women. I have no clue why…
Almost as hot as the swarthy rendering of Kenickie, uh, I mean Andrew Jackson, on our $20 dollar bills.
@9 If by “Gay Men” you mean Dan Savage, then yes- but only because Dan Savage has a weird fetish for men that look like Kate Blanchett.
Imagine him with nicely-cropped Paul Bettany hair, and FUCK YEAH.
But the hair in that picture looks my “body wave” perm from the 5th grade, and that isn’t hot at all.
He kinda looks like he’d front a 70s, mid-west powerpop band. I think Wally Bryson was doing that look for a bit.
Dead guys who were hot:
Percy Shelley
John Clare
Washington Irving
Or maybe they just painted incredibly flattering portraits in the romantic period.
What rock band was he in?
imagine that face less the poodle curls, duh, on some crusty bikecore skeeter – hell yes
dude should have cuffed one leg when he was alive
He’s definitely got some Peter Frampton hair going on. But whatever, dude invented calculus, so I’ve got to round him up to ‘hot.’
I was about to vote yes, then I thought about the fact that folks didn’t bathe much then. Royalty did, but they were also inbred. So between the stinky and the horse-faced, I don’t think ANYBODY was even KINDA hot back then.
@15, The Kinks.
I agree with Aislinn.
Totally Ray Davies, Mr. Fnarf! (You beat me to it.)
@15
The Cars
Very fluffy-looking ‘do for an age when most people looked like they dressed their hair with candle wax or suet. Come to think of it, that’s pretty much the way it was for long-haired dudes right up until the early 1970’s when conditioner and blow-dryers first came out
one of the best minds of many centuries – sexy – of course
Dude had Asperger’s, a true giant of science, but definitely NOT hot. I suspect he’d have put up with Lindy for about 42 seconds, blinked and walked away
dougsf! you named checked wally bryson of the raspberries, one of my favorite bands! i love you!!!
Lindy, is it me, or does Isaac look a LOT like Jason Segel??
also, fairly certain i had the exact same haircut in 8th grade.
xx
@25 – nah, everyone loves Lindy.
But would she have him?
He’s got an intensity of the eyes that’s rather hot.
@5 Totally. There’s something about a large distinctive nose that pulls the face together.
Hurrah for Lindy and her random questions about historical figures. My week has been made!
He used to poke needles behind those intense eyes, to push on the eyeball and map the distortions. Hell yes.
PS Add to the “dead hot guys” list Robert Cornelius, the subject of the first portrait photograph.
@32
Oh, wow. Yeah. He totally belongs on the list.
@19:
I was thinking more Peter Frampton circa 1976
From what I remember in high school science class he was a virgin who fantasised about killing his mum
The hair is Frampton, but the nose and lips and eyebrows are Davies. Frampton’s a doughboy in comparison.
http://www.blogmeanies.com/wp-content/up…
So when people ask me if my big nose achieved its distinguished shape by being broken before, they’re really asking me if I’m free to bone?
Well played, gravity.
Zander nailed it @7.
Crazy isn’t sexy.
@35 – well, at that time, that would have made him even hotter.
Besides, big noses mean … um … big brain.
You know, the one guys use.
So where are the shirtless portraits?
Ugly hipster.
Isaac Newton had secret doors and passageways in his house so that his maid could move around the house and never have contact with him. These were his explicit instructions. The man extremely feared being in the same room with a woman.
Yeah, that’s hot.
I think if I had to chose who I’d rather do, it would be Copernicus:
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/123…
Ginger.
you know who else was kind of hot?
young lincoln:
http://dudebro.org/blog/wp-content/uploa…