[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why Newton Contributed To Human Knowledge With A False Theory
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:23:37 +0000 (GMT)
--- Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>
> Most of the writings by Newton are undecipherable, because he had a poor
> education,
But he could spell 'indecipherable' (sic).
>and not good instruments for measurement.
This lack of good instruments would not explain the indecipherability. The
difficulty in his work _Principia Mathematica_ is that, unlike say Darwin's
'The Origin Of Species', is requires a level of maths that is beyond
He lived most of his
> life
> in a barn among the Lincolnshire sheep, and when he was invite to London to
>
> dine with the Queen, he felt awkward, out of place, and became a hermit.
>
> Most of his theories are possibly false, yet he did more than that. He had
>
> no children, although some sources say that he did (have children). He was
> not
> gay. He possibly died of some infectious disease, or old age.
>
> His apple is still preserved in the British museum.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
>
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