#Principia Mathematica

[whats-in-a-sentence]

That was a special problem which remained unsolved for a century after the "Principia Mathematica."

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[wisdomfish]

Newton poses a problem for Dawkins.

Newton is possibly the greatest scientist of all time, and was a strong believer in God. So how does Dawkins deal with Newton? He tries to neutralize Isaac Newton by claiming he was a fake, motivated by money. This is how he does it – the passage is in Dawkins' book The God Delusion. Dawkins starts with a quote from Bertrand Russell who said: "Intellectually eminent men disbelieve the Christian religion, but hide the fact, because they are afraid of losing their income." The next sentence is: "Newton was religious." The insinuation is that Newton was faking belief in God to get money. This is totally false.

If Newton was faking it, he really overdid it. He wrote to his friend Richard Bentley: "When I wrote my treatise [Principia Mathematica], I had an eye upon such principles as might work for the belief of a deity, and nothing can rejoice me more, than to find it useful for that purpose." He read the Bible every day; attacked and ridiculed atheists and wrote letters encouraging opponents of atheism. Newton wrote:

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things, and knows all that is or can be done. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being.

And this: "It is the perfection of God's works, that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion." Galileo said: "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." Galileo, Newton and Einstein all believed in God, therefore Dawkins' claim that science and religion are in conflict is nonsense.

~ John Marsh 

[ahb-writes]

"While in London, UK, Adam [Savage] meets up with Brady Haran at The Royal Society! Brady takes us down to the archives of this historic science academy where Library Manager Rupert Baker lets Adam flip through the first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica printed in 1687. We learn the storied history of the publication of this groundbreaking text and its significance to modern science. Plus, Adam gets to examine Sir Isaac Newton's actual death mask!"

[teachersource]

Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642. An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a “natural philosopher”), widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus.

[f0restpunk]

[tenth-sentence]

All this stuff that seems so simple now is only simple because Isaac Newton explained it first in his book "Principia Mathematica," published in 1687.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[cometchasr]

if you have a set of numbers with exactly one number in it and have another set of numbers with exactly one number in it then the set of numbers containing all the numbers in the first two sets has exactly 2 numbers

[slapstikcomedyentertainment]

Hilarious Histories - July 5

Newton especially struggled with the problem of counterfeit currency...

On July 5, 1687, a man slightly more brilliant than myself, Sir Isaac Newton, published the “Principia Mathematica.” Two hundred fifty years later to the day, Spam was introduced to a grateful world. Coincidence? I think not. The eminent scientist unveiled several wonders for humanity, which in deference to him share his name. These include Newton’s laws of motion, Newton’s law of universal…

[nothoward]

Because.

- Newton's Fourth Law

[firstofficerrose]

I have a friend studying Biology. This is complicated somewhat by her fluency in Latin.

Why would that complicate things? Well, bio uses a lot of terms that are essentially just Latin pronounced in an English accent. And that, kind friends and companions, is something she can no longer do.

So when she's doing vocabulary, she'll use the Latin "u" sound in words like "Latissimus" and put the emphasis where Latin would place it as opposed to where English does and no dipthongs and Latin double vowels and all the other rules of pronunciation, and it's just so. It's so funny. It's genuinely distressing any time you can't pronounce words correctly in a class discussion, but she just can't do it at all and it's really funny because of all the languages to be providing interference, Latin!

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica had appeared in 1687, using the new tool of calculus that Newton himself developed to express his mechanical model of the heavens mathematically.*

*Unless, that is, the German thinker Gottfried Leibniz, who was working on similar mathematical methods in the 1670s, in fact developed calculus first and Newton just stole the credit. Most likely the two thinkers invented calculus independently, but mutual accusations of plagiarism eventually poisoned their relationship.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[millersix]

i miss translating latin i should get back to that <3

[tagitables]

[darlingofdots]

things Temeraire!verse historians will go absolutely apeshit over:

the wreck of the Allegiance (when she is discovered in the 1990s)

Japanese records of Laurence's time there (as opposed to the official English and Dutch ones)

fragments of Temeraire's copy of the Principia Mathematica (with Laurence's annotations)

letters between Admiral Jane Roland and Lady Allendale (how did these two even meet and why are they friends)

oral history of Aboriginal Australians that finally explains why the fuck Laurence and Temeraire are seem to be so conspicuously absent from the struggle for governorship (nobody bothered to ask)

[apas-95]

neurospicy is when I use my little gray cells to divine future events. on my bookshelf I keep principia mathematica right next to the yi jing and it has very rarely failed me in predicting the choices and behaviours that will be made by various physical objects

[tenth-sentence]

No single human brain could conceive of Hamlet, Principia Mathematica or Codex Leicester; they were created by and belong to the entire human race, and the library of wonders continues to grow.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen