Or, how The Newton helped Apple...
Posted on 01/19/2010 9:50:59 AM PST by shove_it
LONDON – It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton.
An 18th-century account of how Newton developed the theory of gravity was posted to the Web Monday, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.
Newton's encounter with the apple ranks among science's most celebrated anecdotes, and it can now be read in the faded cursive script in which it was recorded by William Stukeley, Newton's contemporary.
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Or, how The Newton helped Apple...
Newton should have just studied the Democrat party here in America. They ALWAYS fall as well
Here’s a link to “Turning the Pages”:
Vely crevel.
I’m reasonably certain that the apple story is a fabrication. Newton recorded it decades later to establish priority for his laws of motion. Personal recollections were not the reclusive Newton’s style.
Robert Hook had published “Newton’s” laws of motion and gravity nine years before Newton. The difference was that Newton invented the differential calculus and showed that the laws lead to keplerian orbits in the solution of the two body problem, a feat far beyond Hook. He also showed that alternative laws were inconsistent with keplerian orbits.
Newton then took off and showed that tides, centripetal force, the precession of the equinox, inter alia, could all be explained by the application of these simple laws, a magnificient achievement and his alone. He also made a less successful stab at the moon’s pecular motion.
History has “awarded” the laws to Newton, so his effort was successful, I suppose.
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