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Posts tagged Isaac Newton.

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Institutions Newtoniennes NEWTON (ISAAC), SIGORGNE (PIERRE) Second edition, 6 folding engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, 8vo, Paris, Guillyn, 1769 “… Sigorgne forcefully demonstrated the Newtonian arguments for the physical instability of the hypothetical vortices and the mathematical incompatibility between vortex motion and Kepler’s laws. His Institution newtoniennes (1747),a clear introduction no Newtonian mathematical and physical principles, contributed to the acceptance of the attraction theory by the French scientific community. ” ~encyclopedia.com

Institutions Newtoniennes
NEWTON (ISAAC), SIGORGNE (PIERRE)

Second edition, 6 folding engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, 8vo, Paris, Guillyn, 1769

“… Sigorgne forcefully demonstrated the Newtonian arguments for the physical instability of the hypothetical vortices and the mathematical incompatibility between vortex motion and Kepler’s laws. His Institution newtoniennes (1747),a clear introduction no Newtonian mathematical and physical principles, contributed to the acceptance of the attraction theory by the French scientific community. ” ~encyclopedia.com

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1 year ago on February 27, 2012 at 07:34pm
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graemebooks: holonify: An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time. Neat.  A handwritten biography of Isaac Newton by William Stukeley, 1752.

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An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.

Neat.  A handwritten biography of Isaac Newton by William Stukeley, 1752.

#isaac newton  #Science  #William Stukeley  
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3 years ago on January 22, 2010 at 06:39pm
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