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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jul 8, 2015 13:36:13 GMT
A genius with dark secrets Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view. But did he?: BBCNewton was born prematurely on Christmas morning, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. He was a tiny baby, given little chance of survival. The country he was born into was chaotic and turbulent. England was being torn apart by civil war. Plague was an ever-present threat. Many believed the end of the world was imminent. But the hamlet of Woolsthorpe was a quiet community, little touched by either war or plague, which respected Puritan values of sobriety, simple worship and hard work. Sir Godfrey KnellerIsaac Newton was and could be a pain in the proverbial in those times but we know he had a passion for learning, he did 'dabble' with mathematics at Cambridge but more can be read here: www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton.html
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Post by Lighthouse on Jul 8, 2015 15:22:48 GMT
Apples discovered gravity (before) Newton did. Thus, they, "pipped him to the post".
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jul 9, 2015 11:26:18 GMT
Cor blimey, I think apples were 'using' gravity before they realised what gravity was
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