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To: Semi Civil Servant

Did Newton invent calculus? Don't think so.

What ever happened to Newtonian physics, though?

Yeah, Bill Nye, the Science Guy!


40 posted on 11/23/2005 6:35:40 PM PST by phantomworker (A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
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To: Semi Civil Servant

Leibniz invented calculus. Here is another hotly debated issue. LOL!

http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/bioleib.htm


46 posted on 11/23/2005 6:40:31 PM PST by phantomworker (A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
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To: phantomworker
Did Newton invent calculus? Don't think so.

Sure as heck did. Newton and Liebniz both invented calculus independently. Modern notation is more like Liebniz. Newton was the first to apply calc to physics.

47 posted on 11/23/2005 6:41:23 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: phantomworker
What ever happened to Newtonian physics, though?

It is still there, being used 99.9% of time.

52 posted on 11/23/2005 6:43:35 PM PST by A. Pole (Marcus Lucanus: "Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.")
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To: phantomworker

"Yeah, Bill Nye, the Science Guy!"

Yea - the great supporter of Democrats. Clinton, Gore, Kerry, you name it. More aptly named "Bill Nye, the Liberal Guy."


196 posted on 11/23/2005 8:56:06 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: phantomworker
Did Newton invent calculus? Don't think so.

Actually, he did. At least he was first to invent it but a man by the name of Liebwitz independently derived the calculus and published it first. Newton later published his version of calculus which turned out to be more useful in physics, engineering, etc. See the following link for details:

http://www1.umn.edu/ships/9-1/calculus.htm

253 posted on 11/24/2005 12:09:09 AM PST by Mogollon (Contempt prior to investigation assures Everlasting Ignorance)
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