Tag: Isaac newton
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#MorningMonarchy: March 24, 2016
Mormon Mason, White Horse and black bunny + this day in history w/The Great Escape and our song of the day by Barry Adamson on your Morning Monarchy for March 24, 2016.
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The Strange, Secret History of Isaac Newton’s Papers
from Wired.com: When Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left behind no will and an enormous stack of papers. His surviving correspondences, notes, and manuscripts contain an estimated 10 million words, enough to fill up roughly 150 novel-length books. There are pages upon pages of scientific and mathematical brilliance. But there are also pages that…
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Digital Alchemy: Sir Isaac Newton’s Papers
from TheConversation.com: The notebooks of Sir Isaac Newton, who was famously reported to have suffered a (scientifically) earth-shaking blow to the head from an apple, are being scanned and published online by the University of Cambridge. “It was certainly far more common in the 17th and 18th centuries for scientists to be interested in magical…