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44 unusual facts about Isaac Newton


A New Theory of the Earth

It was published in 1696 and was well received by intellectuals of the day such as Isaac Newton and John Locke.

Abraham Yahuda

Also included were a number of documents from other countries, including a number of illuminated manuscripts and unpublished documents penned by Sir Isaac Newton.

Academic publishing

It was not at all unusual for a new discovery to be announced as an anagram, reserving priority for the discoverer, but indecipherable for anyone not in on the secret: both Isaac Newton and Leibniz used this approach.

Angelo Maria Quirini

From 1710 to 1714, he undertook extended educational journeys through England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands and corresponded or even met with eminent scholars of his time such as Bernard de Montfaucon, Isaac Newton, or Voltaire.

Apple Dylan

Apple Dylan was code-named Leibniz (a pun, of sorts, since Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton are credited as the inventors of calculus).

Bernardo Vittone

He points out that Vittone attempted to mathematically prove the correct classic proportions of buildings, and that he used the recent discoveries of light by Newton to address questions of architecture; and yet, he ends with a dedication to God and the Virgin Mary.

Cadambathur Tiruvenkatacharlu Rajagopal

He showed that the series for tan1x discovered by James Gregory and those for sin x and cos x discovered by Isaac Newton were known to the Hindu mathematicians 150 years earlier.

Colourmusic

They became interested in Isaac Newton's Theory of Color and Sound and focus their musical styles on a color.

Contributors to the mathematical background for general relativity

Isaac Newton (Newton's identities for characteristic of Einstein tensor)

Derivative

Lagrange's notation is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Newton.

Donegall Square

Its exterior features carved portholes, with the faces of George Washington, Isaac Newton, Michelangelo and William Shakespeare protruding.

Elements of the Philosophy of Newton

Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Éléments de la philosophie de Newton)is a book written by the philosopher Voltaire in 1738 that helped to popularize the theories and thought of Isaac Newton.

Elisabeth Jungmann

Jungmann once told Beerbohm how she would have liked to have met Isaac Newton, famous for his Law of Gravity.

Europeana

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, the works of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are some of the highlights on Europeana.

Exertion

In physics exertion is use of energy against, or for, inertia as described by Isaac Newton's third law of motion.

Francisco Javier Clavijero

Here he was introduced to the works of such contemporary thinkers as Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz.

Goethean science

His work in optics, and his polemics against the reigning Newtonian theory of optics, were poorly received by the scientific establishment of his time.

Heinz Memorial Chapel

These represent St. Luke’s and Jesus’ spiritual progeny: in charity, St. Francis of Assisi; in imagination, Leonardo da Vinci ; in understanding, Newton; in healing, Pasteur; in eloquence, Wordsworth; in leadership, Lincoln; in thought, Emerson.

History of structural engineering

The foundations of modern structural engineering were laid in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton with the publication of three great scientific works.

Also in the 17th century, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz both independently developed the Fundamental theorem of calculus, providing one of the most important mathematical tools in engineering.

Eleven years later, in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, setting out his Laws of Motion, providing for the first time an understanding of the fundamental laws governing structures.

History of the social sciences

What would happen within decades of his work was a revolution in what constituted "science", particularly the work of Isaac Newton in physics.

Jacob Anton Zallinger zum Thurn

As a canonist he defended the papal rights again the Febronian tendencies in Germany, and as a philosopher he endeavoured to replace the scholastic method by the empiricism of Newton.

Jetboat

Both methods yield thrust due to Newton's third law— every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

John Freind

In 1709 he published his Prelectiones chimicae, which he dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton.

Joseph Henry

Bronze statutes of Henry and Isaac Newton represent science on the balustrade of the galleries of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. They are two of the 16 historical figures depicted in the reading room, each pair representing one of the 8 pillars of civilization.

Khalid Masud

Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin: "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy").

Left–right symmetry

The rule is absolutely valid in the classical mechanics of Newton and Einstein, but results from quantum mechanical experiments show a difference in the behavior of left-chiral versus right-chiral subatomic particles.

Negligible function

Though the concepts of "continuity" and "infinitesimal" became important in mathematics during Newton and Leibniz's time (1680s), they were not well-defined until late 1810s.

Newton's Apple

The show's title is based on the rumor of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree and an apple falling near him—or, more popularly, on his head—prompting him to ponder what makes things fall, leading to the development of his theory of gravitation (an event often loosely described as him "discovering" gravity).

Newtonian potential

It is named for Isaac Newton, who first discovered it and proved that it was a harmonic function in the special case of three variables, where it served as the fundamental gravitational potential in Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Ordinary differential equation

Many mathematicians have studied differential equations and contributed to the field, including Newton, Leibniz, the Bernoulli family, Riccati, Clairaut, d'Alembert, and Euler.

Patrick Collison

He entered the 40th Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition with his project on artificial intelligence (nicknamed 'Isaac' after the famed English physicist whom Patrick admired), finishing as individual runner-up.

Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ

Founded in 1843, Pleasant Hill was originally called "Newton" in honor of Sir Isaac, after whom the surrounding township was also named.

Rosser Reeves

Reeves co-authored The 99 Critical Shots in Pool with Ray Martin to explain both Euclid and Sir Isaac Newtons' geometric proofs.

The Human Christ

The book later leads to a demonstration of how Sir Isaac Newton changed society and caused a division in religious practice as science and logic ignited the minds of academics.

Thomas Jefferson and education

At William & Mary, he enrolled in the philosophy school and studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.

Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield

He was, however, still able to be a pallbearer at the funeral of Sir Isaac Newton in 1727.

Torne Valley

By measuring the length of the arc, Maupertuis' team was able to prove that the Earth is, indeed, flattened at the poles as sir Isaac Newton had predicted.

Torque effect

The torque effect experienced in helicopters and single propeller-powered aircraft is a result of Isaac Newton's third law of motion that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"

University College Utrecht

Newton houses the Sciences Department which covers Cognitive Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences.

Warden of the Mint

The most illustrious holder of the office of Warden of the Mint was Isaac Newton, who was warranted to this position on the recommendation of his friend, Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1698.

Will Sharpe

Sharpe spent a year at the RSC and appeared in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, in which he played a young Isaac Newton.

Zacharey Grey

He also countered Sir Isaac Newton's work with Examination of the 14th chapter of Sir Isaac Newton's observations upon the prophecies of Daniel. Grey showed the shallowness of Newton's biblical scholarship and accused him of Arianism.


2653 Principia

It is named after the ground-breaking Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton.

Aleksey Krylov

Krylov also published the first Russian translation of Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1915).

ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome

A variety of perennials and trees were added, including a Malus apple tree directly descended from the tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation.

Catherine Barton

Catherine Barton (1679–1739) was Isaac Newton's half-niece, probable mistress of Charles Montague and later, the wife of John Conduitt.

Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds

and Geoffrey Cantor, whose groundbreaking research on the history of physics – in particular Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday – would earn him the first professorship in the HPS division at Leeds.

Denis Vrain-Lucas

In 1861 Vrain-Lucas approached French mathematician and collector Michel Chasles and sold him forged letters for Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal.

Giovanni Battista Baliani

His arguments published by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in his Almagestum novum (1651) and later resumed by John Wallis and Isaac Newton.

GRNappletree

The brand's website claims that the name GRNappletree is a "metaphor for life and the pursuit of inspiration," that represents the planting and harvesting of the seed of inspiration, it also alludes to Newton, Adam and Johnny Appleseed.

In Good King Charles's Golden Days

A discussion play, the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller, with interventions by three of the king's mistresses (Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland; Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth; and Nell Gwynn) and his queen, Catherine of Braganza.

John Herivel

Herivel wrote books and articles on Isaac Newton, Joseph Fourier, Christiaan Huygens, and an autobiographical account of his work at Bletchley Park, Herivelismus.

Loup Verlet

Among other things, it considers how three great thinkers (Descartes, Newton and Freud) changed our world view.

Newton's method

In numerical analysis, Newton's method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

Preterm birth

Historical figures who were born prematurely include Johannes Kepler (born in 1571 at 7 months gestation), Isaac Newton (born in 1642, small enough to fit into a quart mug, according to his mother), Winston Churchill (born in 1874 at 7 months gestation), and Anna Pavlova (born in 1885 at 7 months gestation).

Reflecting instrument

Some of the early reflecting instruments were proposed by scientists such as Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton.

Robert S. Corrington

Corrington has had bouts with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive), and he gives a personal account of this in his 2003 book Riding the Windhorse: Manic Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness, which contains case studies of Sri Ramakrishna and Sir Isaac Newton as well as his intellectual biography "My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism."

Romanticism in science

Examples of prominent Enlightenment scholars include: Sir Isaac Newton (physics and mathematics), René Descartes (philosophy), and Andreas Vesalius (anatomy).

Sir John Lawes School

The school is split into seven houses, Austen (Red), Britten (Yellow), Hepworth, (Green), King (Silver), Lawes (Orange), Newton (Blue) and Ryder (Purple), named for Jane Austin, Benjamin Britten, Barbara Hepworth, Martin Luther King, John Bennet Lawes, Isaac Newton and Sue Ryder respectively.

Stourbridge fair

During his time at the University in 1665, Isaac Newton visited the fair and is known to have bought a copy of Euclid's Elements which he used to teach himself mathematics.

Sweetness and light

In On Ancient and Modern Learning (1697), Swift's patron, the urbane Sir William Temple, had weighed in on the losing side, that of the Ancients, repeating the famous paradox used by Newton that we moderns see further only because we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants.

William R. Newman

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.