Shedding Moonlight on the Real Newton; ISAAC NEWTON by James Gleick (Fourth Estate, [Pounds Sterling]15)Read the full-text online article and more details about Shedding Moonlight on the Real Newton; ISAAC NEWTON by James Gleick (Fourth Estate, [Pounds Sterling]15)....
n hisHypothesis of Lightof 1675, Newton relied on the existence of the ether to transmit forces between particles. Newton was in contact with Henry More, the Cambridge Platonist who was born in Grantham, on alchemy, and now his interest in the subject revived. He replaced the ether with oc...
Me & Isaac Newton: Directed by Michael Apted. With Paul Allen, Gertrude Elion, Ashok Gadgil, Michio Kaku. Seven of today's top scientist/researchers are the subject of this humourous exploration of real people behind the white lab coats; more about what
Named after the father of modern mechanics, the 'Newton Virus' introduces the concept of gravity causing your desktop to behave exactly as it would in the real physical environment. Desktop icons become susceptible to Newton’s invisible force and fall, roll and tumble in whatever direction gravit...
“If I have seen further than other men,” said Isaac Newton, “it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Asimov Adding A Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science (1964), Introduction. Science quotes on: | Advance (298) | Air (366) | Arise (...